United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. Bush

Through times of war and times of peace, periods of prosperity and scarcity, hours dark and bright, the continuation of the American government through legal, Constitutionally guaranteed means has never faltered. There can be no better representation of that marvel, unequaled in world history, than the inaugural addresses of incoming Presidents. A collection of first speeches from each of the nation's new leaders, plus the subsequent inaugural words of re-elected Presidents, *Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States* gathers in one important volume the thoughts of the first to the forty-fourth leader as he entered office. 


Contents
 

George Washington, First Inaugural Address
George Washington, Second Inaugural Address
John Adams Inaugural Address
Thomas Jefferson First Inaugural Address
Thomas Jefferson Second Inaugural Address
James Madison First Inaugural Address
James Madison, Second Inaugural Address
James Monroe First Inaugural Address
James Monroe, Second Inaugural Address
John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address
Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural Address
Andrew Jackson, Second Inaugural Address
Martin Van Buren, Inaugural Address
William Henry Harrison, Inaugural Address
James Knox Polk, Inaugural Address
Zachary Taylor, Inaugural Address
Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address
James Buchanan, Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
Ulysses S. Grant, First Inaugural Address
Ulysses S. Grant, Second Inaugural Address
Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural Address
James A. Garfield Inaugural Address
Grover Cleveland, First Inaugural Address
Benjamin Harrison, Inaugural Address
Grover Cleveland, Second Inaugural Address
William Mckinley First Inaugural Address
William Mckinley, Second Inaugural Address
Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address
William Howard Taft, Inaugural Address
Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address
Woodrow Wilson, Second Inaugural Address
Warren G. Harding, Inaugural Address
Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address
Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Third Inaugural Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address
Harry S. Truman, Inaugural Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Second Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Inaugural Address
Richard Milhous Nixon, First Inaugural Address
Richard Milhous Nixon, Second Inaugural Address
Jimmy Carter, Inaugural Address
Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address
Ronald Reagan, Second Inaugural Address
George Bush, Inaugural Address
William Jefferson Clinton, First Inaugural Address
William Jefferson Clinton, Second Inaugural Address
George W. Bush, First Inaugural Address
George W. Bush, Second Inaugural Address
Notes—Presidents Who Were Not Inaugurated