Compare and Contrast of the Speeches
Actions can pull a country apart or bring it together. Some actions would be speeches. These three famous speeches makes up most of american history as the most famous speeches in american history and all brought America together for a common cause. These speeches are “The gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln, “Day of Infamy” by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George Bush’s speech on 9/11. In “The Gettysburg Address” was given in 1863, and was delivered at Gettysburg after the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War, also was presented by President Abraham Lincoln. seventy eight years later, On December 8th, 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented his speech “Day of Infamy” to the nation.…show more content… Lincoln’s purpose of writing the speech was to dedicate a cemetery and also indirectly bring unity. lincoln said this in multiple sentences but especially in the last full sentence of the speech “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” He put an underlying message in his speech that we should unite the country for the fallen soldiers of the war. Roosevelt's purpose was to call for war showed by him stating “I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire." Bush’s purpose was to tell terrorist we are not cowards. He proclaimed on live tv “America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this
