Analysis Of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fourth Inaugural Address

Its 1945 the climax of the war is going on and America is feeling the effects of it. The dragged out war has the public questioning will the suffering ever end. How did they get through it, is what I ask. It's all from the president at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, most commonly referred to as FDR now a days. FDR got America through the rough times by using his calm voice to give hope, inspiration, and ultimately help America achieve peace within the troubling times. This was seen in his 4th inarguable address that was told during the time. America in the beginning of 1945 was defeated. They had just dealt with a depression that had rocked the country and now we're in a war that was being dragged out longer than originally thought. They wanted to give up to be plain. Despite what America was thinking FDR had the belief that America was not defeated. In his fourth inarguable he challenged them to not give up by saying “If we meet that test-
He does this by saying “we can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear, we can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence and the courage which flows from conviction”. This saying from his fourth inaugural address is telling the people they will never get peace if they don't trust themselves and let them know that everything's going to be ok if you just trust in it. That if you trust it you will be fine but in reality this is just making the people better from having them do that it's making them give it their all trying to reach it. This had helped the American people achieve the lasting peace after the war. All of these things put together had the people believing that tomorrow was going to be a better day. All because FDR had use hope, inspiration, and peace to get them their even during the troubling