Category Archives: Politics

There has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the House of Representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It has now been completed. The Senate about to assemble will also be Democratic. The offices of President and Vice-President have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the changeContinue reading “President Woodrow’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1913*”

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*”

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*”