In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend. — Zachary Taylor
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. — Abraham Lincoln
You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship will certainly meet with majority support of our two peoples. — Zhou Enlai
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question. — Victoria Woodhull
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. — George W. Bush
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. — Jawaharlal Nehru
When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people. — Jackie Robinson
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. — Martin Van Buren
I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States — George W. Bush
Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. — James K. Polk
Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people. — Mike Pence
I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise. — Jimmy Carter
... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. — Grover Cleveland
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Inaugural Speech Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen
I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody. — Muhammadu Buhari
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. — John F. Kennedy
When you can't solve and address and issue or opportunity, there is no harm or shame in reaching out for people who can.
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. — Barack Obama
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations — Barack Obama
So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof — John F. Kennedy
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. — Thomas Paine
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in. — Abraham Lincoln
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." — Abraham Lincoln
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. — Abraham Lincoln
Inaugural Quotes
It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but rather that He inaugurated a religious movement adapted, or to be adapted, to different times and different places. — Pope Pius X
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained... — George Washington
The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born. — Christopher Hitchens
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. — David Horowitz
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. — Abraham Lincoln
I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now. — Sarah Vowell
Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem. — Ronald Reagan
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. — George Washington
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. — Victoria Woodhull
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist. — Barack Obama
Inauguration Quotes
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. — Barack Obama
Within moments of my inauguration, we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. — Donald Trump
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. — Barack Obama
In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
President Trump ought to realize, he's not campaigning anymore. He's president. And instead of talking about how many people showed up at his inauguration, he ought to be talking about how many people are going to stay into the middle class and move into the middle class. — Charles Schumer
United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
split asunder. — John F. Kennedy
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. — Abraham Verghese
The primary reason Jesus came to earth was to inaugurate the Kingdom of God. Often, we hear that the reason Jesus came to the earth was to die on the Cross. Jesus did come to die on the Cross, but that death on the Cross was for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of God. — John Eckhardt
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. — John F. Kennedy
This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. — Henry A. Kissinger
Care for him who shall have borne the battle — Abraham Lincoln
When you frack a well, you're exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he's doing it with natural gas. — Josh Fox
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today. — Anna Deavere Smith
In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either. — Theodore Roosevelt
We will respond to the threat of climate change — Barack Obama
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. — Abraham Lincoln
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. — Nancy Pelosi
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. — Barack Obama
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. — Barack Obama
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works. — Barack Obama
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. — Abraham Lincoln
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Almighty has His own purposes. — Abraham Lincoln
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. — Abraham Lincoln
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. — Abraham Lincoln
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. — Abraham Lincoln
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. — Abraham Lincoln
We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. — Woodrow Wilson
Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 shrink neither. — Theodore Roosevelt
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers. — Sayings
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. — Barack Obama
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
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends. — Gerald R. Ford
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. — George Will
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. — Jean-Claude Juncker
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