24 enero, 2013

OBAMA'S INAGURATION SPEECH


Chief Justice Roberts: Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
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I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear...
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The President: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear...
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Chief Justice Roberts: ...that I will faithfully execute...
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The President: ...that I will faithfully execute...
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Chief Justice Roberts: ...the office of president of the United States...
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The President: ...the office of president of the United States...
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Chief Justice Roberts: ...and will, to the best of my ability...
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The President: ...and will, to the best of my ability...
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Chief Justice Roberts: ...preserve, protect and defend...
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The President: ...preserve, protect and defend...
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Chief Justice Roberts: ...the Constitution of the United States.
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The President: ...the Constitution of the United States.
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Chief Justice Roberts: So help you God?
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The President: So help me God.
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Chief Justice Roberts: Congratulations, Mr. President.
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Well done.
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(applause)
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United States Marine Band: ♪♪ ("Hail to the Chief") ♪♪
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(cannon fire)
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Senator Schumer: Ladies and gentlemen.
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It is my great privilege and distinct honor to introduce
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the 44th President of the United States of America,
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Barack H. Obama.
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(cheers and applause)
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The President: Thank you.
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(cheers and applause)
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Thank you.
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(applause)
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Thank you so much.
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(applause)
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Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United
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States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens,
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each time we gather to inaugurate a president,
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we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution.
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We affirm the promise of our democracy.
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We recall that what binds this nation together is not
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the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or
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the origins of our names.
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What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is
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our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration
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made more than two centuries ago.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
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are created equal.
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(applause)
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That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable
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rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
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of happiness.
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Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of
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those words with the realities of our time.
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For history tells us that while these truths may be
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self-evident, they've never been self-executing.
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That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured
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by his people here on earth.
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The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of
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a king with the privileges of a few, or the rule of a mob.
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They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for
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the people.
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Entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.
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And for more than 200 years we have.
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Through blood drawn by lash, and blood drawn by sword, we noted
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that no union founded on the principles of liberty
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and equality could survive half slave, and half free.
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We made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together.
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Together we determined that a modern economy requires
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railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce, schools and
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colleges to train our workers.
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Together we discovered that a free market only thrives when
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there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.
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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for
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the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst
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hazards and misfortune.
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Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of
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central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that
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all society's ills can be cured through government alone.
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Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence
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on hard work and personal responsibility, these are
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constants in our character.
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For we have always understood that when times change, so must
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we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires
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new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual
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freedoms ultimately requires collective action.
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For the American people can no more meet the demands of today's
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world by acting alone than American soldiers could have
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met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets
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and militias.
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No single person can train all the math and science teachers
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we'll need to equip our children for the future.
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Or build the roads and networks and research
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labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores.
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Now, more than ever, we must do these things together,
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as one nation, and one people.
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(applause)
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This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that
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steeled our resolve and proved our resilience.
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A decade of war is now ending.
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(applause)
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And economic recovery has begun.
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(applause)
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America's possibilities are limitless, for we possess all
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the qualities that this world without boundaries demands:
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youth and drive, diversity and openness, of endless capacity
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for risk and a gift for reinvention.
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My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment and we
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will seize it, so long as we seize it together.
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(applause)
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For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed
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when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely
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make it.
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(applause)
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We believe that America's prosperity must rest upon
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the broad shoulders of a rising middle class.
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We know that America thrives when every person can find
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independence and pride in their work, when the wages of honest
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labor will liberate families from the brink of hardship.
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We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the
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bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed
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as anybody else because she is an American, she is free, and
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she is equal not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.
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(applause)
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We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to
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the needs of our time.
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So we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our
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government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower
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our citizens with the skills they need to work hard or learn
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more, reach higher.
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But while the means will change, our purpose endures.
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A nation that rewards the effort and determination of every
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single American, that is what this moment requires.
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That is what will give real meaning to our creed.
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We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a
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basic measure of security and dignity.
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We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health
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care and the size of our deficit.
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(applause)
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But we reject the belief that America must choose between
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caring for the generation that built this country and investing
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in the generation that will build its future.
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(applause)
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For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years
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were spent in poverty and parents of a child with a
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disability had nowhere to turn.
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We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for
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the lucky or happiness for the few.
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We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives,
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any one of us at any time may face a job loss or a sudden
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illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm.
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The commitments we make to each other through Medicare
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and Medicaid and Social Security,
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these things do not sap our initiative.
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They strengthen us.
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(applause)
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They do not make us a nation of takers.
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They free us to take the risks that make this country great.
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(applause)
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We, the people, still believe that our obligations as
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Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the
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failure to do so would betray our children and
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future generations.
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(applause)
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Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of
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science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging
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fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.
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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long
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and sometimes difficult.
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But American cannot resist this transition.
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We must lead it.
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(applause)
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We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power
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new jobs and new industries.
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We must claim its promise.
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That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our
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national treasure, our forests and waterways, our crop lands
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and snowcapped peaks.
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That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our
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care by God.
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That's what will lend meaning to the creed our
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fathers once declared.
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We, the people, still believe that enduring security and
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lasting peace do not require perpetual war.
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(applause)
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Our brave men and women in uniform tempered by the flames
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of battle are unmatched in skill and courage.
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(applause)
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Our citizens seared by the memory of those we have lost,
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know too well the price that is paid for liberty.
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The knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant
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against those who would do us harm.
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But we are also heirs to those who won the peace, and not just
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the war; who turn sworn enemies into the surest of friends.
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And we must carry those lessons into this time as well.
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We will defend our people, and uphold our values through
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strength of arms, and the rule of law.
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We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with
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other nations peacefully.
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Not because we are naive about the dangers we face, but because
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engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear.
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(applause)
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America will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every
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corner of the globe.
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And we will renew those institutions that extend
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our capacity to manage crisis abroad.
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For no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world than its
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most powerful nation.
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We will support democracy from Asia to Africa, from the
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Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our
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conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long
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for freedom.
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And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick,
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the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.
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Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time
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requires the constant advance of those principles that our
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common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity,
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human dignity and justice.
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We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths
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that all of us are created equal -- is the star that guides us
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still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls
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and Selma and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and
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women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great
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mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to
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hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is
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inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
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(applause)
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It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers
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began, for our journey is not complete until our wives, our
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mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.
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(applause)
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and
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sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we
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are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one
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another must be equal, as well.
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(applause)
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Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced
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to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote.
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(applause)
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Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to
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welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America
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as a land of opportunity, until bright young students
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and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than
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expelled from our country.
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(applause)
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Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the
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streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes
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of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished
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and always safe from harm.
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That is our generation's task, to make these works, these
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rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit
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of happiness real for every American.
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Being true to our founding documents does not require
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us to agree on every contour of life.
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It does not mean we all define liberty in exactly the same way
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or follow the same precise path to happiness.
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Progress does not compel us to settle century's long debates
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about the role of government for all time, but it does require us
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to act in our time.
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(applause)
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For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay.
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We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute
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spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
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(applause)
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We must act.
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We must act knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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We must act knowing that today's victories will be only partial,
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and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years and
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40 years and 400 years hence to advance the timeless spirit
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once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.
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My fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today,
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like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol,
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was an oath to God and country, not party or faction.
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And we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration
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of our service.
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But the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath
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that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty,
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or an immigrant realizes her dream.
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My oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the
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flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with pride.
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They are the words of citizens, and they represent
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our greatest hope.
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You and I, as citizens, have the power to set
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this country's course.
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You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates
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of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices
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we lift in defense of our most ancient values and
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enduring ideals.
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(applause)
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Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome
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joy, what is our lasting birthright.
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With common effort and common purpose, with passion and
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dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into
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an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.
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Thank you. God bless you.
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And may He forever bless these United States of America.
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(cheers and applause)