| Inaugural Address Extract | President |
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| 44 Americans have now taken the presidential oath | |
| Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States | |
| Not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right | |
| Only a few short weeks ago, we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God sees it | |
| Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom | |
| Kansas shall be admitted as a State it 'shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission | |
| This is the first time in history that this ceremony has been held, as you have been told, on this West Front of the Capitol. | |
| Since that period a population of four millions has multiplied to twelve. A territory bounded by the Mississippi has been extended from sea to sea. | |
| It confers a common dignity upon the French soldier who dies in Indo-China, the British soldier killed in Malaya, the American life given in Korea | |
| We have emerged from the losses of the Great War and the reconstruction following it with increased virility and strength | |
| Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order | |
| Taking care not to confound the powers they have reserved to themselves with those they have granted to the Confederacy | |
| In company with 16 free nations of Europe, we launched the greatest cooperative economic program in history. | |
| I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit, and ended with grace. | |
| 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 | |
| With the Indian tribes it is our duty to cultivate friendly relations and to act with kindness and liberality in all our transactions | |
| As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' | |
| President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends | |
| The country having just emerged from a great rebellion | |
| Our own country is leading the world in the general readjustment to the results of the great conflict | |
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