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  • The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961
  • Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

    Peace   War   Torches  
    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.

    Father   Men   Rights  
    First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009
  • The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address, the Senate stated: "We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be lain in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue."

  • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.

  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

    Gay   Rights   Today  
    Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226
  • Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
  • Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.

    Source: live.washingtonpost.com
  • We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
  • Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

    David McCullough's Commencement Address at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, archives.nbclearn.com. June 9, 2008.
  • I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • the better angels of our nature

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
  • Care for him who shall have borne the battle

    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
  • For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

    Doubt   Arms   Certain  
    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961
  • One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

    Powerful   War   Southern  
    Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865
  • A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

    Wise   Wisdom   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

    Patriotic   Godly   Men  
    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961
  • One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

    Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.121, Cambridge University Press
  • With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
  • So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961
  • I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  • What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except put Wall Street first, make America sick again, instill fear in our immigrant population in our country, and make sure that Russia maintains its grip, its grip on our foreign policy.

    Country   Wall   Russia  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  • This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

    First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933
  • With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

    God   Business   Work  
    Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865
  • In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933. According to Hans Sperber and Travis Trittschuh, American Political Terms: An Historical Dictionary, Herbert Hoover prominently used the term "good neighbor" during his tour of South America after the 1928 presidential election.
  • So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

    Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961
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