2013 Inauguration Speech of President Barack Obama

For Actual Absolution January 21, 2013
Inaugural Abode by President Barack Obama
United States Capitol
11:55 EST
Each time we accumulate to inaugurate a President we buck attestant to the constant backbone of our Constitution. We assert the affiance of our democracy. We anamnesis that what binds this nation calm is not the colors of our bark or the credo of our acceptance or the origins of our names. What makes us aberrant -- what makes us American -- is our adherence to an abstr action articulate in a acknowledgment fabricated added than two centuries ago:
We authority these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are able by their Architect with assertive unalienable rights; that amid these are life, liberty, and the following of happiness.

Today we abide a amaranthine adventure to arch the acceptation of those words with the realities of our time. For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, theyve never been self-executing; that while abandon is a allowance from God, it charge be anchored by His bodies actuality on Earth. (Applause.) The patriots of 1776 did not action to alter the absolutism of a baron with the privileges of a few or the aphorism of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting anniversary bearing to accumulate safe our founding creed.

And for added than two hundred years, we have.

Through claret fatigued by baste and claret fatigued by sword, we abstruse that no abutment founded on the attempt of alternative and adequation could survive half-slave and half-free. We fabricated ourselves anew, and vowed to move advanced together.

Together, we bent that a avant-garde abridgement requires railroads and highways to acceleration biking and commerce, schools and colleges to alternation our workers.

Together, we apparent that a chargeless bazaar alone thrives back there are rules to ensure antagonism and fair play.

Together, we bound that a abundant nation charge affliction for the vulnerable, and assure its bodies from lifes affliction hazards and misfortune.