By John Gabriel Hunt
"Ask no longer what your state can do for you; ask what you are able to do on your country." those phrases from John F. Kennedy's immortal inaugural handle should be learn in complete context during this updated number of the inaugural speeches of each president of the U.S. from George Washington to George W. Bush. Reprinted of their entirety, the fifty four speeches are followed by means of line drawings and profiles and history on all of the forty three presidents who gave them. Inspiring, relocating, or even astonishing, those wealthy items of oratory are a compelling technique to song the background of our nice state.
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To put our extensive coast in such a state of defense as to secure our cities and interior from invasion will be attended with expense, but the work when finished will be permanent, and it is 39 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES fair to presume that a single campaign of invasion by a naval force superior to our own, aided by a few thousand land troops, would expose us to greater expense, without taking into the estimate the loss of property and distress of our citizens, than would be sufficient for this great work.
Fortunate as we are in our political institutions, we have not been less so in other circumstances on which our prosperity and happiness essentially depend. Situated within the temperate zone, and extending through many degrees of latitude along the Atlantic, the United States enjoy all the varieties of climate, and every production incident to that portion of the globe. Penetrating internally to the 37 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES Great Lakes and beyond the sources of the great rivers which communicate through our whole interior, no country was ever happier with respect to its domain.
The negotiation with France for the regulation of the commercial relations between the two countries, which in the course of the last summer had been commenced at Paris, has since been transferred to this city, and will be pursued on the part of the United States in the spirit of conciliation, and with an earnest desire that it may terminate in an arrangement satisfactory to both parties. Our relations with the Barbary Powers are preserved in the same state and by the same means that were employed when I came into this office.
