My Fellow-Citizens: Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office upon which he is about to enter, or he is lacking in a proper sense of the obligation which the oath imposes.Continue reading “President William Howard Taft’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1909*”
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President Theodore Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1905*
My fellow-citizens, No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with gratitude to the Giver of Good who has blessed us with the conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of well-beingContinue reading “President Theodore Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1905*”
President William McKinley’s Second Inaugural Address, 1897-1901*
My Fellow-Citizens: When we assembled here on the 4th of March, 1897, there was great anxiety with regard to our currency and credit. None exists now. Then our Treasury receipts were inadequate to meet the current obligations of the Government. Now they are sufficient for all public needs, and we have a surplus instead ofContinue reading “President William McKinley’s Second Inaugural Address, 1897-1901*”
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