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Topic·American democracy✕clear

Speech · Political speech

The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. And for more than two hundred years, we have.

Barack Obama

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2013

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

In our whole system, national and State, we have shunned all the defects which unceasingly preyed on the vitals and destroyed the ancient Republics.

James Monroe

Second Inaugural Address of James Monroe · 1821

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable, and that the movement in all its branches will exhibit such a degree of order and harmony as to command the admiration and respect of the civilized world.

James Monroe

Second Inaugural Address of James Monroe · 1821

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

It is a source of gratification and of encouragement to me to observe that the great result of this experiment upon the theory of human rights has at the close of that generation by which it was formed been crowned with success equal to the most sanguine expectations of its founders.

John Quincy Adams

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams · 1825

★ 1.9

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