US inaugural speeches, a source of elegant dictionAgence France-Presse
January 21, 2013
WASHINGTON DC - The following is a selection of quotes from US presidents giving their inaugural speeches, from George Washington to Barack Obama.
George Washington (1789)"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency."
Abraham Lincoln (1865)"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."
Woodrow Wilson (1917)"The war inevitably set its mark from the first alike upon our minds, our industries, our commerce, our politics, and our social action. To be indifferent to it, or independent of it, was out of the question. And yet all the while we have been conscious that we were not part of it."
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