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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Inaugural Presidential Address + +Author: William Jefferson Clinton + +Release Date: June 12, 2008 [EBook #10510] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INAUGURAL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS *** + + + + + + + + + + + + + +The following 1600 words comprise William Jefferson Clinton's +Inaugural Presidential Address given from noon to 12:15 P.M., +January 20, 1993. + +[Capitals represent emphasis, extra commas represent pauses, +long pauses are represented by ellipses (. . .).] + + + +Bill Clinton's Inaugural Address + + +My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. +This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak +and the faces we show the world, we force the spring. A spring reborn in +the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage +to reinvent America. When our founders boldly declared America's +independence to the world, and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew +that America, to endure, would have to change. Not change for change +sake, but change to preserve America's ideals: life, liberty, the +pursuit of happiness. + +Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless. +Each generation of American's must define what it means to be an American. +On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his +half-century of service to America . . . and I thank the millions of men +and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over depression, +fascism and communism. + +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. Raised in +unrivalled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's +strongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, +increasing inequality, and deep divisions among OUR OWN people. + +When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, +news travelled slowly across the land by horseback, and across the ocean +by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast +instantaneously to billions around the world. Communications and +commerce are global. Investment is mobile. Technology is almost magical, +and ambition for a better life is now universal. + +We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with +people all across the Earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking +and remaking our world, and the URGENT question of our time is whether +we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has +already enriched the lives of MILLIONS of Americans who are able to +compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, +when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates +families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and small; +when the fear of crime robs law abiding citizens of their freedom; and +when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are +calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend. + +We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, +but we have not done so. Instead we have drifted, and that +drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, +and shaken our confidence. Though our challenges are fearsome, +so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restless, questing, +hopeful people, and we must bring to our task today the vision +and will of those who came before us. From our Revolution to the +Civil War, to the Great Depression, to the Civil Rights movement, +our people have always mustered the determination to construct from +these crises the pillars of our history. Thomas Jefferson believed +that to preserve the very foundations of our nation we would need +dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, +this is OUR time. Let us embrace it. + +Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of +our OWN renewal. There is nothing WRONG with America that cannot be +cured by what is RIGHT with America. + +And so today we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift, and a +new season of American renewal has begun. + +To renew America we must be bold. We must do what no generation has had +to do before. We must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, and +in their future, and at the same time cut our massive debt. . .and we +must do so in a world in which we must compete for every opportunity. +It will not be easy. It will require sacrifice, but it can be done, and +done fairly. Not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for OUR own +sake. We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its +children. Our founders saw themselves in the light of posterity. We +can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into +sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come, the world +for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and +to whom we bear sacred responsibilities. We must do what America does +best, offer more opportunity TO all and demand more responsibility FROM +all. + +It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing: +from our government, or from each other. Let us all take more +responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our +communities and our country. To renew America we must revitalize +our democracy. This beautiful capitol, like every capitol since +the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation. +Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is +IN and who is OUT, who is UP and who is DOWN, forgetting those people +whose toil and sweat sends us here and paves our way. + +Americans deserve better, and in this city today there are people +who want to do better, and so I say to all of you here, let us resolve +to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down +the voice of the people. Let us put aside personal advantage, so that we +can feel the pain and see the promise of America. Let us resolve to make +our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called "bold, +persistent experimentation, a government for our tomorrows, not our +yesterdays." Let us give this capitol back to the people to whom it +belongs. + +To renew America we must meet challenges abroad, as well as at home. +There is no longer a clear division between what is foreign and what is +domestic. The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS +crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all. Today as an old order +passes, the new world is more free, but less stable. Communism's +collapse has called forth old animosities, and new dangers. Clearly, +America must continue to lead the world we did so much to make. While +America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges nor +fail to seize the opportunities of this new world. Together with our +friends and allies, we will work together to shape change, lest it +engulf us. When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and +conscience of the international community is defied, we will act; with +peaceful diplomacy whenever possible, with force when necessary. The +brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, +and wherever else they stand, are testament to our resolve, but our +greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many +lands. Across the world, we see them embraced and we rejoice. Our hopes, +our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent, who are building +democracy and freedom. Their cause is America's cause. The American +people have summoned the change we celebrate today. You have raised your +voices in an unmistakable chorus, you have cast your votes in historic +numbers, you have changed the face of congress, the presidency, and the +political process itself. Yes, YOU, my fellow Americans, have forced the +spring. Now WE must do the work the season demands. To that work I now +turn with ALL the authority of my office. I ask the congress to join +with me; but no president, no congress, no government can undertake THIS +mission alone. + +My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal. +I challenge a new generation of YOUNG Americans to a season of service, +to act on your idealism, by helping troubled children, keeping company +with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much +to be done. Enough, indeed, for millions of others who are still young +in spirit, to give of themselves in service, too. In serving we recognize +a simple, but powerful, truth: we need each other, and we must care for +one another. Today we do more than celebrate America, we rededicate +ourselves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revolution, +and renewed through two centuries of challenge, an idea tempered by +the knowledge that but for fate, we, the fortunate and the unfortunate, +might have been each other; an idea ennobled by the faith that our nation +can summon from its myriad diversity, the deepest measure of unity; +an idea infused with the conviction that America's journey long, heroic +journey must go forever upward. + +And so, my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21st Century, +let us begin anew, with energy and hope, with faith and discipline, and +let us work until our work is done. The Scripture says: "And let us not +be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." +From this joyful mountaintop of celebration we hear a call to service in +the valley. We have heard the trumpets, we have changed the guard, and +now each in our own way, and with God's help, we must answer the call. + +Thank you, and God bless you all. + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Inaugural Presidential Address, by +William Jefferson Clinton + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INAUGURAL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS *** + +***** This file should be named 10510.txt or 10510.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/0/5/1/10510/ + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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