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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 <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: Inaugural Presidential Address</p> +<p> Official Transcript</p> +<p>Author: Barack Hussein Obama</p> +<p>Release Date: January 20, 2009 [eBook #28001]<br> +Most recent update: April 30, 2009<br> +Most recent update: January 28, 2013</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INAUGURAL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS***</p> + +<p> +This file contains President Barack Obama's two inaugural addresses, +Tuesday, January 20, 2009 and Monday, January 21, <a href="#2013">2013</a>. +</p> + +<p><i>Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, +as prepared for delivery and released by the Presidential Inaugural +Committee.</i></p> + +<p><strong>OBAMA</strong>: My fellow citizens:</p> + +<p>I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust +you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I +thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the +generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.</p> + +<p>Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words +have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters +of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds +and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply +because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we +the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and +true to our founding documents.</p> + +<p>So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.</p> + +<p>That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is +at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our +economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility +on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard +choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs +shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools +fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use +energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.</p> + +<p>These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. +Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across +our land -- a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and +that the next generation must lower its sights.</p> + +<p>Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are +serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short +span of time. But know this, America -- they will be met.</p> + +<p>On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of +purpose over conflict and discord.</p> + +<p>On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and +false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too +long have strangled our politics.</p> + +<p>We remain a young nation, but in the words of scripture, the time has +come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our +enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that +precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: +the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a +chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.</p> + +<p>In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness +is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of +shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the +faint-hearted -- for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only +the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, +the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated but more often men +and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, +rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.</p> + +<p>For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across +oceans in search of a new life.</p> + +<p>For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash +of the whip and plowed the hard earth.</p> + +<p>For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; +Normandy and Khe Sahn.</p> + +<p>Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked +till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw +America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than +all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.</p> + +<p>This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, +powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when +this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and +services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last +year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, +of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -- +that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, +dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.</p> + +<p>For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the +economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act -- not only to +create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build +the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed +our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its +rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's +quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and +the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform +our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new +age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.</p> + +<p>Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions -- who +suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their +memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has +already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is +joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.</p> + +<p>What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted +beneath them -- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us +for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether +our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether +it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a +retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move +forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who +manage the public's dollars will be held to account -- to spend wisely, +reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day -- because +only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their +government.</p> + +<p>Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or +ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but +this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can +spin out of control -- and that a nation cannot prosper long when it +favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always +depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the +reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every +willing heart -- not out of charity, but because it is the surest route +to our common good.</p> + +<p>As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our +safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can +scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the +rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those +ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for +expedience's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are +watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my +father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every +man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that +we are ready to lead once more.</p> + +<p>Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not +just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring +convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor +does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power +grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness +of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of +humility and restraint.</p> + +<p>We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, +we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort -- even +greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to +responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in +Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly +to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming +planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in +its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing +terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is +stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat +you.</p> + +<p>For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. +We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and +non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from +every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of +civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger +and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall +someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the +world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that +America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.</p> + +<p>To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest +and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow +conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West -- know that your +people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To +those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing +of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we +will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.</p> + +<p>To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make +your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies +and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy +relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to +suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources +without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change +with it.</p> + +<p>As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble +gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off +deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, +just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the +ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, +but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find +meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment -- +a moment that will define a generation -- it is precisely this spirit +that must inhabit us all.</p> + +<p>For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith +and determination of the American people upon which this nation +relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, +the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a +friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the +firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a +parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.</p> + +<p>Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may +be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- hard work and +honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and +patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have +been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is +demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is +a new era of responsibility -- a recognition, on the part of every +American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, +duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in +the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so +defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.</p> + +<p>This is the price and the promise of citizenship.</p> + +<p>This is the source of our confidence -- the knowledge that God calls on +us to shape an uncertain destiny.</p> + +<p>This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed -- why men and women +and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration +across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty +years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand +before you to take a most sacred oath.</p> + +<p>So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we +have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, +a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an +icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow +was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution +was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read +to the people:</p> + +<p>"Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, +when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the +country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it)."</p> + +<p>America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our +hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, +let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may +come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested +we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we +falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we +carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to +future generations. +</p> + + +<hr> + +<a name="2013"></a> + +<h2><i>Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Monday, January 21, 2013</i></h2> + +<p> +The White House +</p> +<p> +Office of the Press Secretary +</p> +<p> +For Immediate Release January 21, 2013 +</p> +<p> +Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama + </p> +<p> +United States Capitol + </p> +<p> +11:55 A.M. EST + </p> +<p> +THE PRESIDENT: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, +members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow +citizens: + </p> +<p> +Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the +enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our +democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the +colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our +names. What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our +allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two +centuries ago: +"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created +equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable +rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of +happiness.” + </p> +<p> +Today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those +words with the realities of our time. For history tells us that while +these truths may be self-evident, they’ve never been self-executing; +that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people +here on Earth. (Applause.) The patriots of 1776 did not fight to +replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule +of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for +the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. + </p> +<p> +And for more than two hundred years, we have. + </p> +<p> +Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that +no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could +survive half-slave and half-free. We made ourselves anew, and vowed to +move forward together. + </p> +<p> +Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and +highways to speed travel and commerce, schools and colleges to train +our workers. + </p> +<p> +Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are +rules to ensure competition and fair play. + </p> +<p> +Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, +and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune. + </p> +<p> +Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central +authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills +can be cured through government alone. Our celebration of initiative +and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, +these are constants in our character. + </p> +<p> +But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that +fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new +challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires +collective action. For the American people can no more meet the +demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could +have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. +No single person can train all the math and science teachers we’ll need +to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks +and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. +Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation +and one people. (Applause.) + </p> +<p> +This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our +resolve and proved our resilience. A decade of war is now ending. +(Applause.) An economic recovery has begun. (Applause.) America’s +possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this +world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and +openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My +fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it -- +so long as we seize it together. (Applause.) + </p> +<p> +For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a +shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. +(Applause.) We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the +broad shoulders of a rising middle class. We know that America thrives +when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when +the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. +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. (Applause.) + </p> +<p> +We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our +time. So we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our +government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our +citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach +higher. But while the means will change, our purpose endures: a +nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single +American. That is what this moment requires. That is what will give +real meaning to our creed. + </p> +<p> +We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic +measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to +reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we +reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the +generation that built this country and investing in the generation that +will build its future. (Applause.) For we remember the lessons of our +past, when twilight years were spent in poverty and parents of a child +with a disability had nowhere to turn. + </p> +<p> +We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the +lucky, or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how +responsibly we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job +loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. +The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and +Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they +strengthen us. (Applause.) They do not make us a nation of takers; +they free us to take the risks that make this country great. +(Applause.) + </p> +<p> +We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not +just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat +of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our +children and future generations. (Applause.) Some may still deny the +overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating +impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. + </p> +<p> +The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes +difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. +We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs +and new industries, we must claim its promise. That’s how we will +maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests +and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we +will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what +will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. + </p> +<p> +We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace +do not require perpetual war. (Applause.) Our brave men and women in +uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and +courage. (Applause.) Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we +have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. The +knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against +those who would do us harm. But we are also heirs to those who won the +peace and not just the war; who turned sworn enemies into the surest of +friends -- and we must carry those lessons into this time as well. + </p> +<p> +We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of +arms and rule of law. We will show the courage to try and resolve our +differences with other nations peacefully –- not because we are naïve +about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift +suspicion and fear. (Applause.) + </p> +<p> +America will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of +the globe. And we will renew those institutions that extend our +capacity to manage crisis abroad, for no one has a greater stake in a +peaceful world than its most powerful nation. We will support +democracy from Asia to Africa, from the Americas to the Middle East, +because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of +those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the +poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice –- not out +of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant +advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance +and opportunity, human dignity and justice. + </p> +<p> +We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that +all of us are created equal –- is the star that guides us still; just +as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and +Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, +who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that +we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual +freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth. +(Applause.) + </p> +<p> +It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. +For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and +daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. (Applause.) Our +journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated +like anyone else under the law –- (applause) -- for if we are truly +created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be +equal as well. (Applause.) Our journey is not complete until no +citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. +(Applause.) Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to +welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a +land of opportunity -- (applause) -- until bright young students and +engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our +country. (Applause.) Our journey is not complete until all our +children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to +the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished +and always safe from harm. + </p> +<p> +That is our generation’s task -- to make these words, these rights, +these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for +every American. Being true to our founding documents does not require +us to agree on every contour of life. It does not mean we all define +liberty in exactly the same way or follow the same precise path to +happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long +debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require +us to act in our time. (Applause.) + </p> +<p> +For now decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot +mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, +or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. (Applause.) We must act, +knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, knowing that +today’s victories will be only partial and that it will be up to those +who stand here in four years and 40 years and 400 years hence to +advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare +Philadelphia hall. + </p> +<p> +My fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the +one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and +country, not party or faction. And we must faithfully execute that +pledge during the duration of our service. But the words I spoke today +are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier +signs up for duty or an immigrant realizes her dream. My oath is not +so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above +and that fills our hearts with pride. + </p> +<p> +They are the words of citizens and they represent our greatest hope. +You and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country’s course. +You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our +time -- not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in +defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideals. (Applause.) + </p> +<p> +Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what +is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with +passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry +into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. + </p> +<p> +Thank you. God bless you, and may He forever bless these United States +of America. (Applause.) + </p> +<p> + +END +</p> +<p> +12:10 P.M. 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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 + Official Transcript + + +Author: Barack Hussein Obama + + + +Release Date: January 20, 2009 [eBook #28001] +Last updated: January 27, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INAUGURAL PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS*** + +This file contains President Barack Obama's two inaugural addresses, +Tuesday, January 20, 2009 and Monday, January 21, 2013. + + + + +Text of President Barack Obama's first inaugural address on Tuesday, as +prepared for delivery and released by the Presidential Inaugural +Committee. + +OBAMA: My fellow citizens: + +I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust +you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I +thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the +generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. + +Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words +have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters +of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds +and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply +because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we +the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and +true to our founding documents. + +So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans. + +That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is +at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our +economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility +on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard +choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs +shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools +fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use +energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet. + +These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. +Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across +our land -- a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and +that the next generation must lower its sights. + +Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are +serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short +span of time. But know this, America -- they will be met. + +On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of +purpose over conflict and discord. + +On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and +false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too +long have strangled our politics. + +We remain a young nation, but in the words of scripture, the time has +come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our +enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that +precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: +the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a +chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. + +In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness +is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of +shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the +faint-hearted -- for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only +the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, +the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated but more often men +and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, +rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. + +For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across +oceans in search of a new life. + +For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash +of the whip and plowed the hard earth. + +For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; +Normandy and Khe Sahn. + +Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked +till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw +America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than +all the differences of birth or wealth or faction. + +This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, +powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when +this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and +services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last +year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, +of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -- +that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, +dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. + +For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the +economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act -- not only to +create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build +the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed +our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its +rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's +quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and +the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform +our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new +age. All this we can do. And all this we will do. + +Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions -- who +suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their +memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has +already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is +joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. + +What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted +beneath them -- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us +for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether +our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether +it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a +retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move +forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who +manage the public's dollars will be held to account -- to spend wisely, +reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day -- because +only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their +government. + +Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or +ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but +this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can +spin out of control -- and that a nation cannot prosper long when it +favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always +depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the +reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every +willing heart -- not out of charity, but because it is the surest route +to our common good. + +As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our +safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can +scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the +rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those +ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for +expedience's sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are +watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my +father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every +man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that +we are ready to lead once more. + +Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not +just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring +convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor +does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power +grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness +of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of +humility and restraint. + +We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, +we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort -- even +greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to +responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in +Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly +to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming +planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in +its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing +terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is +stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat +you. + +For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. +We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and +non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from +every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of +civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger +and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall +someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the +world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that +America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace. + +To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest +and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow +conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West -- know that your +people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To +those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing +of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we +will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist. + +To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make +your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies +and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy +relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to +suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources +without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change +with it. + +As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble +gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off +deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, +just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the +ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, +but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find +meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment -- +a moment that will define a generation -- it is precisely this spirit +that must inhabit us all. + +For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith +and determination of the American people upon which this nation +relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, +the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a +friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the +firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a +parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate. + +Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may +be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- hard work and +honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and +patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have +been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is +demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is +a new era of responsibility -- a recognition, on the part of every +American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, +duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in +the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so +defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. + +This is the price and the promise of citizenship. + +This is the source of our confidence -- the knowledge that God calls on +us to shape an uncertain destiny. + +This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed -- why men and women +and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration +across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty +years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand +before you to take a most sacred oath. + +So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we +have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, +a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an +icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow +was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution +was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read +to the people: + +"Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, +when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the +country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it)." + +America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our +hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, +let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may +come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested +we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we +falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we +carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to +future generations. + + + + + + +Text of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address on Monday, +January 21, 2013 + + + +The White House + +Office of the Press Secretary + +For Immediate Release January 21, 2013 + +Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama + + +United States Capitol + + +11:55 A.M. EST + + +THE PRESIDENT: Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, +members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow +citizens: + +Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the +enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our +democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the +colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our +names. What makes us exceptional -- what makes us American -- is our +allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two +centuries ago: +“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created +equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable +rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of +happiness.” + +Today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those +words with the realities of our time. For history tells us that while +these truths may be self-evident, they’ve never been self-executing; +that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people +here on Earth. (Applause.) The patriots of 1776 did not fight to +replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule +of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for +the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. + +And for more than two hundred years, we have. + +Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that +no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could +survive half-slave and half-free. We made ourselves anew, and vowed to +move forward together. + +Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and +highways to speed travel and commerce, schools and colleges to train +our workers. + +Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are +rules to ensure competition and fair play. + +Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, +and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune. + +Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central +authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills +can be cured through government alone. Our celebration of initiative +and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, +these are constants in our character. + +But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that +fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new +challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires +collective action. For the American people can no more meet the +demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could +have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. +No single person can train all the math and science teachers we’ll need +to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks +and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. +Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation +and one people. (Applause.) + +This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our +resolve and proved our resilience. A decade of war is now ending. +(Applause.) An economic recovery has begun. (Applause.) America’s +possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this +world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and +openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My +fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it -- +so long as we seize it together. (Applause.) + +For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a +shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. +(Applause.) We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the +broad shoulders of a rising middle class. We know that America thrives +when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when +the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. +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. (Applause.) + +We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our +time. So we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our +government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our +citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach +higher. But while the means will change, our purpose endures: a +nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single +American. That is what this moment requires. That is what will give +real meaning to our creed. + +We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic +measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to +reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we +reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the +generation that built this country and investing in the generation that +will build its future. (Applause.) For we remember the lessons of our +past, when twilight years were spent in poverty and parents of a child +with a disability had nowhere to turn. + +We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the +lucky, or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how +responsibly we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job +loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. +The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and +Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they +strengthen us. (Applause.) They do not make us a nation of takers; +they free us to take the risks that make this country great. +(Applause.) + +We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not +just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat +of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our +children and future generations. (Applause.) Some may still deny the +overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating +impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. + +The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes +difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. +We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs +and new industries, we must claim its promise. That’s how we will +maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests +and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we +will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what +will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. + +We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace +do not require perpetual war. (Applause.) Our brave men and women in +uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and +courage. (Applause.) Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we +have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. The +knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against +those who would do us harm. But we are also heirs to those who won the +peace and not just the war; who turned sworn enemies into the surest of +friends -- and we must carry those lessons into this time as well. + +We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of +arms and rule of law. We will show the courage to try and resolve our +differences with other nations peacefully –- not because we are naïve +about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift +suspicion and fear. (Applause.) + +America will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of +the globe. And we will renew those institutions that extend our +capacity to manage crisis abroad, for no one has a greater stake in a +peaceful world than its most powerful nation. We will support +democracy from Asia to Africa, from the Americas to the Middle East, +because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of +those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the +poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice –- not out +of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant +advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance +and opportunity, human dignity and justice. + +We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths –- that +all of us are created equal –- is the star that guides us still; just +as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and +Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, +who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that +we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual +freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth. +(Applause.) + +It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. +For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and +daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. (Applause.) Our +journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated +like anyone else under the law –- (applause) -- for if we are truly +created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be +equal as well. (Applause.) Our journey is not complete until no +citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. +(Applause.) Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to +welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a +land of opportunity -- (applause) -- until bright young students and +engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our +country. (Applause.) Our journey is not complete until all our +children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to +the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished +and always safe from harm. + +That is our generation’s task -- to make these words, these rights, +these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for +every American. Being true to our founding documents does not require +us to agree on every contour of life. It does not mean we all define +liberty in exactly the same way or follow the same precise path to +happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long +debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require +us to act in our time. (Applause.) + +For now decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot +mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, +or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. (Applause.) We must act, +knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, knowing that +today’s victories will be only partial and that it will be up to those +who stand here in four years and 40 years and 400 years hence to +advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare +Philadelphia hall. + +My fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the +one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and +country, not party or faction. And we must faithfully execute that +pledge during the duration of our service. But the words I spoke today +are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier +signs up for duty or an immigrant realizes her dream. My oath is not +so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above +and that fills our hearts with pride. + +They are the words of citizens and they represent our greatest hope. +You and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country’s course. +You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our +time -- not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in +defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideals. (Applause.) + +Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what +is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with +passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry +into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. + +Thank you. God bless you, and may He forever bless these United States +of America. (Applause.) + + +END +12:10 P.M. 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