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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 20th20, in order to reduce the [[lame duck]] period.
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 [[John F. Kennedy]] (1961): "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (1965): "Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen but upon all citizensThe judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored."
President [[Richard M. Nixon]] (19691973): "We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another--until we speak quietly enough so that our words A person can be heard as well as our voicesexpected to act responsibly only if he has responsibility." President [[Gerald Ford]] (1974): "I believe that truth This is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itselfhuman nature." President [[Jimmy Carter]] (1977): "'What does the Lord require of thee, but So let us encourage individuals at home and nations abroad to do justlymore for themselves, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy Goddecide 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 [[Bill Clinton]] (1993): "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be fixed by what is right with America."
President [[George W. Bush]] (2001): "America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are guided bound by a power larger thanideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens."ourselvesPresident [[Barack Obama]] (2009): "Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested, Who creates we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back, nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us equal in His image, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations."
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