"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Franklin D. Roosevelt's First (March 4, 1933)
"So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
John F. Kennedy (Jan. 20, 1961)
"Let every nation know, whether it bears us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
Ronald Reagan's First (Jan. 20, 1981)
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."