We're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline.

Ronald Reagan

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan

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American decline America

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Ronald Reagan

Source

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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American President National leader Politician

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United States

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Reagan, Ronald. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1981, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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You may keep one of your children. The other one must go.

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The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.

Thomas Paine

Common Sense

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Thomas Paine
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Common Sense
Medium
Pamphlet
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, introduction.

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
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First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address
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Political speech
Language
English
Time
1861 1860s 19th century
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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

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