“Ask not what your country can do for you,but ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”b” — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Senator Harding, who declared in his inaugural address that “We seek no part in directing the destinies of the world.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush. I don't believe his successor would re-enunciate the words he used in his second… — William F. Buckley Copy Share Image
“ The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether… — Siddharth Kara Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges.… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
“If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch… — Des Browne Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, and Martin Luther King's 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' all have their metaphysical… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
“At the supreme moment of victory they cheered their Father Abraham, the man who, after a shaky start in office, learned how… — James L. Swanson Copy Share Image
“At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Trump's vision for America parallels greatly with the vision that Ronald Reagan used and he implemented to revive the country during a… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you --… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] ” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image