Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln were all presidents who served our country at different times. Through the years that they were president, they dealt with many different types of occasions where they had to step up and defend their country. The three of them each have their own presidential speech which have left and amazing impact on all the people of our nation. The style of each speech reflects the occasion for which it was written.
Abraham Lincoln delivered "The Gettysburg Address", one of his greatest speeches, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863. Lincoln speaks of the civil war in his speech. He talks about how the young men and women devoted their lives to our nation for us. In his speech he uses very religious terms to describe what he is saying. He uses such words as consecrated, which means sacred, hallow, which means holy and he uses the word dedicate which can be used religiously to mean "to devote to the worship of a divine being", the divine being in this case is God. Lincoln speaks as if he were under the influence of God. He speaks as if he were a very holy and humble man. Lincoln also uses a bit of allusion in the Gettysburg Address. "Four score and seven year ago- is taken straight from the bible; he uses that statement to begin his speech. Right from the beginning of his speech the readers know he is linked to God when he talks. Lincoln was trying to be a very peaceful man asking the people not to forget those who have passed away for us and to acknowledge what they have done for us and to keep their spirits alive by finishing what they have started for us.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the Pearl Harbor Address to the House of Representatives after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. In his speech he makes the situation much more badly than it already is. He also makes the speech very dramatic. In his speech he makes the statement "a date which will live in infamy" which becomes a very famous quote.
The eight Presidents who died in office and their Vice Presidents who succeeded them were: William Henry Harrison - John Tyler; Zachary Taylor - Millard Fillmore; Abraham Lincoln - Andrew Johnson; James A. ... Harding - Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt - Harry S. Truman; and John F. Kennedy - Lyndon B. ...
This process took several centuries, and it may be said that the first philosopher to offer a complete liberal doctrine of individual freedom was the Englishman John Locke (1689). ... The writings of such men as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill mark the height of such thinking. ... Franklin D. ... Roosevelt redefined democracy for a mass society of industrial workers. ... But the New Deal, though not color-blind, had shared government largesse with blacks in need, and Roosevelt in the 1930s became an object of devotion in the black community comparable to Abrah...
Mary Lincoln 1818-1882 Abraham Lincoln's wife was the first to hold séances in the White House, to be attacked in the press for lavish purchases during wartime and to fight for the abolition of slavery. ... Alice Roosevelt 1861-1884 Theodore Roosevelt's first wife died in 1884, 17 years before he was elected president. ... Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 Franklin D. ... Mamie Eisenhower 1896-1979 Dwight D. ... Jacqueline Kennedy 1929-1994 John F. ...
Democratic Presidents have included Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, John F Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. ... Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President, and others have included Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D Eisenhower, Richard M Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W Bush. ...
Abraham Lincoln fought in the civil war to fight the injustices of the south, and to preserve the union. Franklin D. Roosevelt led our country against an evil man known as Hitler to prevent the world from further destruction caused by tyranny. John F. Kennedy managed a grueling thirteen days in which the nation feared a nuclear war against the Soviet Union, yet his great leadership in war and peace led our nation to peaceful negotiations with the Soviets. ...
