U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses

“You have given me a great responsibility—to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are. Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.”

GodWisdomAmericaResponsibilityStrengthTrustUnity

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“Because our strengths are so great, we can afford to appraise our weaknesses with candor.”

StrengthSelf Awareness

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“You, my fellow Americans, have forced the spring. Now, we must do the work the season demands.”

WorkCommitmentDedicationRebirth

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“Is our world gone? We say "Farewell." Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.”

ChangeHumanism

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“Only a few short weeks ago, we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God sees it, as a single sphere reflecting light in the darkness. ... In that moment of surpassing technological triumph, men turned their thoughts toward home and humanity, seeing in that far perspective that man's destiny on earth is not divisible.”

FutureHumanismSpace ExplorationNasa

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“If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.”

FreedomDemocracyJudgment

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“From the day of our founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value because they bear the image of the Maker of heaven and earth. Across the generations we have proclaimed the imperative of self-government, because no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave.”

DignitySlaveryHuman RightsEquality

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“The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.”

DignityHuman Rights

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“I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor.”

CommunityCharityServiceCommon Good

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“America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude.”

MoralityHuman RightsMoral Relativism

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“How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.”

HateSelf Destruction

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