A very fine speech, indeed. The link provided through the class blog also included audio player of it. I didn't listen to all of it since it was very long and I could read it faster to myself, he did a good job delivering it.
As for the thesis of his speech, he started out explaining how the US has never really been at much risk since its founding, but the Nazis and Japanese showed a real threat and we must come out of isolationism to protect ourselves. As he goes on, he explains that by coming out of isolationism, we'll protect ourselves and also get a boost in the economy, which was needed greatly before WWII. Lastly, when he was telling what the Four Freedoms were, we should enter the war to protect ourselves, boost the economy, and also protect the freedoms of speech and religion and freedom from want and fear, not only for ourselves, but for our allies.
His thesis did evolve as the speech went on, adding to it and making it stronger with each part of the speech.
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