Inaugural Addresses of U. S. Presidents 1789-2013

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country," - President John F. Kennedy. For more than 200 years, Americans have looked forward to the moment the President of the United States addresses the nation in an inaugural speech. It marks the start of a new four-year term and renews hope for the future. This edition offers those memorable and inspiring moments, from President George Washington's 1789 address in New York City to President Barack Obama's...
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"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country," - President John F. Kennedy. For more than 200 years, Americans have looked forward to the moment the President of the United States addresses the nation in an inaugural speech. It marks the start of a new four-year term and renews hope for the future. This edition offers those memorable and inspiring moments, from President George Washington's 1789 address in New York City to President Barack Obama's 2013 speech in Washington D.C."Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation." -- President Lydon B. Johnson (1965)"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 Abraham Lincoln. (1805)"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 Roosevelt (1933)"We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." -- President Thomas Jefferson (1801).