WILLIAM MCKINLEY, MAR. 4, 1897, 1ST INAUGURAL:
I assume the arduous and responsible duties of President of
the United States, relying upon the support of my countrymen and
invoking the guidance of Almighty God. Our faith teaches that there
is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers, who has so
singularly favored the American people in every national trial, and
who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and
walk humbly in His footsteps...
It is consoling and encouraging to realize that free speech, a
free press, free thought, free schools, the free and unmolested right of
religious liberty and worship, and free and fair elections are dearer and
more universally enjoyed to-day than ever before...
Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain
that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the
world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve...
I would have all my countrymen observe: “I will faithfully
execute the office of the President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” This is the obligation I have reverently taken
before the Lord Most High. To keep it will be my single purpose, my
constant prayer.
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