Citizens of the United States: Your suffrages having elected me to the office of President of the United States, I have, in conformity to the Constitution of our country, taken the oath of office prescribed therein. I have taken this oath without mental reservation and with the determination to do to the best of myContinue reading “President Ulysses S. Grant’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869*”
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President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865*
FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations haveContinue reading “President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865*”
President Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861*
Fellow-Citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President “before he enters on the execution of this office.”Continue reading “President Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861*”
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