Friends and Fellow-Citizens: CALLED upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow-citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me, to declare a sincereContinue reading “President Thomas Jefferson’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801*”
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President John Adams’ Inaugural Address, March 4, 1797*
WHEN it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for America remained between unlimited submission to a foreign legislature and a total independence of its claims, men of reflection were less apprehensive of danger from the formidable power of fleets and armies they must determine to resist than from those contests andContinue reading “President John Adams’ Inaugural Address, March 4, 1797*”
President George Washington’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1793*
I AM again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence which has been reposed in me by the people ofContinue reading “President George Washington’s Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1793*”
D.J. Gorena 