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It is a source of gratification and of encouragement to me to observe that the great result of this experiment upon the theory of human rights has at the close of that generation by which it was formed been crowned with success equal to the most sanguine expectations of its founders.

John Quincy Adams

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams

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American experiment American democracy

Speaker

John Quincy Adams

Source

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Adams, John Quincy. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1825, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. But we must not forget that we take these gifts upon the condition that justice and mercy shall hold the reins of power and that the upward avenues of hope shall be free to all the people.

Benjamin Harrison

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison

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God and America American prosperity Social mobility Equality of opportunity

Speaker

Benjamin Harrison

Source

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Harrison, Benjamin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1889, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

We are approaching the limits of what government alone can do. Our greatest need now is to reach beyond government, and to enlist the legions of the concerned and the committed. What has to be done, has to be done by government and people together or it will not be done at all.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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Political theory American politics

Speaker

Richard Nixon

Source

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Nixon, Richard. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1969, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Harry Truman

Quoted in Observer

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Misfortunes of others

Speaker

Harry Truman

Source

Observer

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Truman, Harry S. Quoted in The Observer. 13 Apr. 1958.

The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

Harry Truman

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Nuclear weapons

Author

Harry Truman

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English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Truman, Harry S. Message to Congress on atomic energy. 3 Oct. 1945, Washington, DC, USA.

We have no disposition and we disclaim all right to meddle in disputes, whether internal or foreign, that may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their controversies.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren

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Non-intervention Isolationism American foreign policy

Speaker

Martin Van Buren

Source

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

I believe that involuntary servitude, as it exists in different States of this Confederacy, is recognized by the Constitution. I believe that it stands like any other admitted right, and that the States where it exists are entitled to efficient remedies to enforce the constitutional provisions.

Franklin Pierce

Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce

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Pre-Civil War conflict Slavery American politics

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Franklin Pierce

Source

Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Pierce, Franklin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1853, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Thinking big Goals Dreams

Speaker

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Source

2011 Harvard commencement address

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Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson. Commencement speech. Commencement cermony. 26 May 2011, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

The illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Clement Attlee

On Russian communism.

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Russian communism Communism

Speaker

Clement Attlee

Source

The Times of London

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Speech Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Attlee, Clement. Speech at Aarhus University. 11 Apr. 1956, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them...if they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Journalism

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Speech

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English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Man with the Muckrake." Laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building. 14 Apr. 1906, House Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Man with the Muckrake." The Muckrakers, edited by Arthur Weinberg and Lila Weinberg. University of Illinois Press, 2001.

The striking incidents of your history, replete with instruction and furnishing abundant grounds for hopeful confidence, are comprised in a period comparatively brief. But if your past is limited, your future is boundless. Its obligations throng the unexplored pathway of advancement, and will be limitless as duration.

Franklin Pierce

Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce

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American optimism American pride

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Franklin Pierce

Source

Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Pierce, Franklin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1853, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

This is the most significant movement of all! There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots, that I greatly admire. The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered, something notable and striking. This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important consequences, and so lasting, that I cannot but consider it as an epocha in history.

John Adams

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American Revolution

Author

John Adams

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Personal journal

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English

Time

1773 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Adams, John. Diary entry. 17 Dec. 1773.

The last, perhaps the greatest, of the prominent sources of discord and disaster supposed to lurk in our political condition was the institution of domestic slavery.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren

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Slavery

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Martin Van Buren

Source

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as the chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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Communism

Speaker

Harry Truman

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. For in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like the leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush

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Cold War Soviet Union

Speaker

George H.W. Bush

Source

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

In all disputes between conflicting governments it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral, while our geographical position, the genius of our institutions and our people, the advancing spirit of civilization, and, above all, the dictates of religion direct us to the cultivation of peaceful and friendly relations with all other powers.

Zachary Taylor

Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor

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Non-intervention American foreign policy American politics

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Zachary Taylor

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Inaugural Address of Zachary Taylor Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Taylor, Zachary. "Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1849, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers, who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial, and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps.

William McKinley

First Inaugural Address of William McKinley

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God and America

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William McKinley

Source

First Inaugural Address of William McKinley Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Citation

McKinley, William. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1897, Front of original Senate Wing, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

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Old vs. young War

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Herbert Hoover

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Hoover, Herbert. Address in Chicago. Republican National Convention. 27 June 1944, Chicago, IL, USA.

Those who are called upon to administer it must recognize as its leading principle the duty of shaping their measures so as to produce the greatest good to the greatest number.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

On the U.S. Constitution.

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US Constitution Utilitarianism Moral theory Political theory

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William Henry Harrison

Source

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Let us be proud that our system has produced and provided more freedom and more abundance, more widely shared, than any system in the history of the world.

Richard Nixon

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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American pride America

Speaker

Richard Nixon

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Nixon, Richard. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1973, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.