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Speech · Political speech

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln · 1861

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual... Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever - it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln · 1861

★ 3.8

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.

George Washington

Washington's Farewell Address · 1796

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the union.

Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson · 1833

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.

First Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2009

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Whatsoever is of domestic concernment, unconnected with the other members of the Union or with foreign lands, belongs exclusively to the administration of the State governments. Whatsoever directly involves the rights and interests of the federative fraternity or of foreign powers is of the resort of this General Government. The duties of both are obvious in the general principle, though sometimes perplexed with difficulties in the detail.

John Quincy Adams

Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adams · 1825

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they never can be maintained.

Second Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson · 1833

★ 1.3

Speech · Political speech

The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.

Second Inaugural Address of Barack Obama · 2013

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

The perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves...if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 1.1