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Freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Thomas Jefferson

First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1937, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1937." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs.

Donald Trump

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump

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Trump, Donald. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2017, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Letter to Louis Bonaparte. 6 May 1807.

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Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.

Thomas Jefferson

First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable, and that the movement in all its branches will exhibit such a degree of order and harmony as to command the admiration and respect of the civilized world.

James Monroe

Second Inaugural Address of James Monroe

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Monroe, James. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1821, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom...because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul.

George W. Bush

Second Inaugural Address of George W. Bush

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Bush, George W. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2005, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Religion is an all-important matter in a public school for girls. Whatever people say, it is the mother's safeguard, and the husband's. What we ask of education is not that girls should think, but that they should believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Note sur L'Etablissement D'Ecouen [Note on the establishment of Écouen]. 15 May 1807.

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Government is not the problem, and Government is not the solution. We—the American people—we are the solution. Our Founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day.

Bill Clinton

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton

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Clinton, William J. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1997, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The advancement & diffusion of Knowledge, which is the only Guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

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Madison, James. Letter to George Thomson. 30 June 1825.

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Madison, James. "Political Observations, 20 Apr. 1795." Founders Online, National Archives. Founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0423.

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It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. Response to a serenade. 10 Nov. 1864, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Response to a serenade, November 10, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: 1859-1865. Library of America, 1989.

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It is my firm conviction that the civilized world is tending toward republicanism, or government by the people through their chosen representatives, and that our own great Republic is destined to be the guiding star to all others.

Ulysses S. Grant

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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Grant, Ulysses S. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1873, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to William Charles Jarvis. 28 Sept. 1820.

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America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected. Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment. We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

George W. Bush

First Inaugural Address of George W. Bush

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Bush, George W. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2001, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the cold war assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.

Bill Clinton

First Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton

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Clinton, William J. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1993, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Third Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1941, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Third Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1941." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Since the turn of the century, the number of democracies in the world has grown fourfold. Human freedom is on the march, and nowhere more so than in our own hemisphere. Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress.

Ronald Reagan

Second Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 1985, United States Capitol rotunda, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.

Barack Obama

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 2013, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

James Madison

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Madison, James. "Republican Distribution of Citizens." National Gazette, 3 Mar. 1792.

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Madison, James. Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.

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