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The '''Inaugural Address''' is the speech by an elected [[American]] [[President]] just after he is sworn into office on [[January]] 20th by the Chief Justice. The [[Twentieth Amendment]] advanced the date for the new president to take office from [[March]] 4th to January 20th, in order to reduce the [[lame duck]] period.
The '''Inaugural Address''' is the speech by an elected [[American]] [[President]] just after he is sworn into office on [[January]] 20th by the Chief Justice. The [[Twentieth Amendment]] advanced the date for the new president to take office from [[March]] 4th to January 20th, in order to reduce the [[lame duck]] period.
Here are some quotes from past Inaugural Addresses:
Here are some notable quotes from past Inaugural Addresses:
President [[Abraham Lincoln]] (1865): “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, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (1905): "Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities."
President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] (1933): "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] (1933): "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (1965): "The judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored."
President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (1965): "The judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored."
President [[Richard M. Nixon]] (1969): "As all are born equal in dignity before
President [[Richard M. Nixon]] (1973): "A person can be expected to act responsibly only if he has responsibility. This is human nature. So let us encourage individuals at home and nations abroad to do more for themselves, to decide more for themselves. Let us locate responsibility in more places.”
President [[Ronald Reagan]] (1981): "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
President [[Ronald Reagan]] (1981): "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."