January 22, 2013
President Barack H. Obama's Second Inaugural Address
Washington D C, Jan 21, 2013
Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of a United States Congress, distinguished guests, as good as associate citizens, any time we accumulate to inaugurate a president, we bear declare to a fast strength of a Constitution. We affirm a promise of a democracy. We stop which what holds this republic together is not a colors of a skin or a beliefs of a conviction or a origins of a names.
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is a devotion to an thought articulated in a stipulation done some-more than dual centuries ago. We hold these truths to be self-evident, which all men have been combined equal.
That they have been endowed by their author with certain unalienable rights, as good as among these have been life, liberty, as good as a office of happiness. Today we continue a never finale tour to overpass a definition of those difference with a realities of a time. For story tells us which whilst these truths might be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That whilst freedom is a present from God, it contingency be secured by his people here on earth.
The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace a restraint of a aristocrat with a privileges of a few, or a order of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a supervision of, as good as by, as good as for a people. Entrusting any generation to keep protected a founding creed. And for some-more than 200 years we have. Through red red blood drawn by lash, as good as red red blood drawn by sword, we remarkable which no kinship founded on a beliefs of autocracy as good as equality could tarry half slave, as good as half free.
We done! ourselv es anew, as good as vowed to move brazen together.
Together we determined which a modern economy requires railroads as good as highways to speed travel as good as commerce, schools as good as colleges to train a workers. Together we discovered which a giveaway market only thrives when there have been manners to ensure foe as good as fair play. Together we finalise which a good republic contingency caring for a vulnerable as good as protect a people from life's misfortune hazards as good as misfortune.
Through it all, we have never relinquished a doubt of executive authority, nor have we succumbed to a fiction which all societies ills can be cured by supervision alone. Our celebration of beginning as good as enterprise, a insistence on hard work as good as personal responsibility, these have been constants in a character.
For we have regularly accepted which when times change, so contingency we, which fealty to a founding beliefs requires brand brand new responses to brand brand new challenges, which preserving a particular freedoms ultimately requires usual action.
For a American people can no some-more encounter a final of today's universe by behaving alone than American soldiers could have met a forces of fascism or communism with muskets as good as militias. No singular chairman can train all a math as good as scholarship teachers we'll need to equip a young kids for a future. Or build a roads as good as networks as good as investigate labs which will move brand brand new jobs as good as businesses to a shores.
This generation of Americans has been tested by crises which steeled (ph) a finalise as good as proved a resilience. A decade of fight is right away ending.
And mercantile recovery has begun.
America's possibilities have been limitless, for we retain all a qualities which this universe without boundaries demands: lady as good as drive, farrago as good as openness, of endless genius for risk as good as a present for reinvention.
My associate Americans, we have been done for this moment as good as we will seize it, so prolonged as we seize it together.
For we, a people, understand which a country cannot attain when a shrinking couple of do really good as good as a flourishing many barely have it.
We hold which America's wealth contingency rest on a broad shoulders of a taking flight middle class. We know which America thrives when any chairman can find independence as good as honour in their work, when a wages of honest work will liberate families from a margin of hardship.
We have been loyal to a hold when a little lady innate in to a bleakest misery knows which she has a same chance to attain as anybody else since she is an American, she is free, as good as she is next to not only in a eyes of God though also in a own.
We understand which neglected (ph) programs have been inadequate to a needs of a time. So we contingency strap brand brand new ideas as good as record to remake a government, revamp a taxation code, remodel a schools, as good as commission a adults with a skills they need to work hard or sense more, reach higher.
But whilst a means will change, a role endures. A republic which rewards a bid as good as determination of any singular American, which is what this moment requires. That is what will give genuine definition to a creed.
We, a people, still hold which any adult deserves a simple measure of confidence as good as dignity. We contingency have a hard choices to reduce a price of health caring as good as a distance of a deficit.
But we reject a idea which America contingency select between caring for a generation which built this country as good as investing in a generation which will build a future.
For we remember a lessons of a past, when night before years were outlayed in misery as good as relatives of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. We do not hold which in this country freedom is indifferent for a lucky or happiness for a few. W! e commen d which no have a difference how responsibly we live a lives, any a single of us at any time might face a office detriment or a remarkable seizure or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments we have to any alternative by Medicare as good as Medicaid as good as Social Security, these things do not corrupt a initiative.
They have firm us.
They do not have us a republic of takers. They giveaway us to take a risks which have this country great.
We, a people, still hold which a obligations as Americans have been not only to ourselves, though to all posterity. We will reply to a hazard of climate change, meaningful which a disaster to do so would misuse a young kids as good as destiny generations.
Some might still deny a overwhelming judgment of science, though none can equivocate a devastating impact of raging fires, as good as crippling drought, as good as some-more absolute storms. The trail towards tolerable appetite sources will be prolonged as good as sometimes difficult. But American cannot resist this transition. We contingency lead it.
We cannot concede to alternative nations a record which will energy brand brand new jobs as good as brand brand new industries. We contingency explain a promise. That's how we will maintain a mercantile vitality as good as a national treasure, a forests as good as waterways, a stand lands as good as sleet capped peaks. That is how we will safety a planet, commanded to a caring by God. That's what will lend definition to a hold a fathers once declared.
We, a people, still hold which fast confidence as good as durability assent do not need incessant war.
Our dauntless men as good as women in unvaried tempered by a flames of battle have been unmatched in ability as good as courage.
Our adults seared by a mental recall of those we have lost, know as good good a price which is paid for liberty. The knowledge of their scapegoat will keep us forever observant opposite those who would do us harm. But ! we have been also heirs to those who won a peace, as good as not only a war. Who spin sworn enemies in to a surest of friends. And we contingency lift those lessons in to this time as well. We will urge a people, as good as uphold a values by strength of arms, as good as a order of law.
We will show a bravery to try as good as finalise a differences with alternative nations peacefully. Not since we have been genuine about a dangers we face, though since engagement can some-more durably lift suspicion as good as fear.
America will sojourn a anchor of strong alliances in any corner of a globe. And we will replenish those institutions which extend a genius to conduct predicament abroad. For no a single has a larger interest in a peaceful universe than a many absolute nation. We will support democracy from Asia to Africa, from a Americas to a Middle East, since a interests as good as a demur enforce us to action on behalf of those who prolonged for freedom. And we contingency be a source of hope to a poor, a sick, a marginalized, a victims of prejudice.Not out of small charity, though since assent in a time requires a constant allege of those beliefs which a usual hold describes; tolerance as good as opportunity, tellurian grace as good as justice. We a people declare currently which a many evident of law which all of us have been combined next to is a star which guides us still; only as it guided a forebears by Seneca Falls as good as Selma as good as Stonewall; only as it guided all those men as good as women, sung as good as unsung, who left footprints along this good mall, to listen to a preacher say which we cannot travel alone; to listen to a King broadcast which a particular freedom is inextricably firm to a freedom of any essence on Earth.
It is right away a generation's charge to lift on what those pioneers began, for a tour is not finish until a wives, a mothers as good as daughters can consequence a vital next to to their efforts.
Our tour is not finish until a happy broth! ers as g ood as sisters have been treated similar to any a single else underneath a law, for if we have been indeed combined equal, then certainly a love we dedicate to a single an additional contingency be equal, as well.
Our tour is not finish until no adult is forced to wait for for hours to practice a right to vote.
Our tour is not finish until we find a better way to acquire a striving, carefree immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students as good as engineers have been enlisted in a workforce rather than expelled from a country.
Our tour is not finish until all a children, from a streets of Detroit to a mountainous country of Appalachia to a still lanes of Newtown, know which they have been cared for as good as loving as good as regularly protected from harm.
That is a generation's task, to have these works, these rights, these values of hold up as good as autocracy as good as a office of happiness genuine for any American.
Being loyal to a founding papers does not need us to agree on any contour of life. It does not mean we all conclude autocracy in just a same way or follow a same precise trail to happiness.
Progress does not enforce us to settle century's prolonged debates about a role of supervision for all time, though it does need us to action in a time.
For now, decisions have been on us as good as we cannot means delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or surrogate spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
We contingency act. We contingency action meaningful which a work will be imperfect (ph). We contingency action meaningful which today's victories will be only partial, as good as which it will be up to those who stand here in 4 years as good as 40 years as good as 400 years hence to allege a undying suggestion once conferred to us in a gangling Philadelphia hall.
My associate Americans, a promise we have sworn before we today, similar to a a single re! cited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an promise to God as good as country, not celebration or faction.
And we contingency steadily execute which promise during a generation of a service. But a difference we spoke currently have been not so opposite from a promise which is taken any time a infantryman signs up for duty, or an newcomer realizes her dream.
My promise is not so opposite from a promise we all have to a dwindle which waves above as good as which fills a hearts with pride. They have been a difference of citizens, as good as they paint a biggest hope. You as good as I, as citizens, have a energy to set this country's course. You as good as I, as citizens, have a requisite to shape a debates of a time, not only with a votes we cast, though a voices we lift in defense of a many very old values as good as fast ideas.
Let us any of us right away embrace with solemn duty, as good as overwhelming joy, what is a durability birthright. With usual bid as good as usual purpose, with passion as good as dedication, let us answer a call of story as good as lift in to an uncertain destiny which precious light of freedom.
Thank you.
God magnify you.
And might He forever magnify these United States of America.
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