President Calvin Coolidge’s Inaugural Address, march 4, 1925*

MY COUNTRYMEN: No one can contemplate current conditions without finding much that is satisfying and still more that is encouraging. Our own country is leading the world in the general readjustment to the results of the great conflict. Many of its burdens will bear heavily upon us for years, and the secondary and indirect effectsContinue reading “President Calvin Coolidge’s Inaugural Address, march 4, 1925*”

President Warren G. Harding’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1921*

When one surveys the world about him after the great storm, noting the marks of destruction and yet rejoicing in the ruggedness of the things which withstood it, if he is an American he breathes the clarified atmosphere with a strange mingling of regret and new hope. We have seen a world passion spend itsContinue reading “President Warren G. Harding’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1921*”

President Woodrow Wilson’s Second Inaugural Address, march 5, 1917*

The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in this place have been crowded with counsel and action of the most vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important reforms in our economic and industrial life or so full of significant changes in theContinue reading “President Woodrow Wilson’s Second Inaugural Address, march 5, 1917*”