Fellow-Citizens: Without solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages of my countrymen to the most honorable and most responsible office on earth. I am deeply impressed with gratitude for the confidence reposed in me. Honored with this distinguished consideration at an earlier period of life than any ofContinue reading “President James K. Polk’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1845*”
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President William Henry Harrison’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1841*
Called from a retirement which I had supposed was to continue for the residue of my life to fill the chief executive office of this great and free nation, I appear before you, fellow-citizens, to take the oaths which the Constitution prescribes as a necessary qualification for the performance of its duties; and in obedienceContinue reading “President William Henry Harrison’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1841*”
President Martin Van Buren’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1837*
Fellow-Citizens: The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill–to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast. In imitating theirContinue reading “President Martin Van Buren’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1837*”
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