My Fellow Americans: Memorable Inauguration Speech Quotations

Famous lines from presidential inauguration speeches.

Jan. 20, 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first and only president sworn in for a fourth term. The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution now limits presidential terms to two. (Photo: National Archive/Getty Images)
John F. Kennedy, Jan. 20, 1961 - "My fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."  (Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
Lyndon B. Johnson, Jan. 20, 1965 - "Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation."  (Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
Richard M. Nixon, Jan. 20, 1973 - "Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong — in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system — in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms."  (Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress)Gerald Ford, Aug. 9, 1974 (after Nixon's resignation) - "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."  (Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

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John F. Kennedy, Jan. 20, 1961 - "My fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." (Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

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