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