my fellow citizen __PUNCT__
i stand here todai humbl by the task befor us __PUNCT__ grate for the trust you have bestow __PUNCT__ mind of the sacrific born by our ancestor __PUNCT__
i thank presid bush for hi servic to our nation __PUNCT__ as well as the generos and cooper he ha shown throughout thi transit __PUNCT__
forti __PUNCT__ four american have now taken the presidenti oath __PUNCT__
the word have been spoken dure rise tide of prosper and the still water of peac __PUNCT__
yet __PUNCT__ everi so often the oath is taken amidst gather cloud and rage storm __PUNCT__
at these moment __PUNCT__ america ha carri on not simpli becaus of the skill or vision of those in high offic __PUNCT__ but becaus we the peopl have remain faith to the ideal of our forbear __PUNCT__ and true to our found document __PUNCT__
so it ha been __PUNCT__
so it must be with thi gener of american __PUNCT__
that we ar in the midst of crisi is now well understood __PUNCT__
our nation is at war __PUNCT__ against a far __PUNCT__ reach network of violenc and hatr __PUNCT__
our economi is badli weaken __PUNCT__ a consequ of greed and irrespons on the part of some __PUNCT__ but also our collect failur to make hard choic and prepar the nation for a new ag __PUNCT__
home have been lost __PUNCT__ job shed __PUNCT__ busi shutter __PUNCT__
our health care is too costli __PUNCT__ our school fail too mani __PUNCT__ and each dai bring further evid that the wai we us energi strengthen our adversari and threaten our planet __PUNCT__
these ar the indic of crisi __PUNCT__ subject to data and statist __PUNCT__
less measur but no less profound is a sap of confid across our land __PUNCT__ a nag fear that america declin is inevit __PUNCT__ and that the next gener must lower it sight __PUNCT__
todai i sai to you that the challeng we face ar real __PUNCT__
thei ar seriou and thei ar mani __PUNCT__
thei will not be met easili or in a short span of time __PUNCT__
but know thi __PUNCT__ america __PUNCT__ thei will be met __PUNCT__
on thi dai __PUNCT__ we gather becaus we have chosen hope over fear __PUNCT__ uniti of purpos over conflict and discord __PUNCT__
on thi dai __PUNCT__ we come to proclaim an end to the petti grievanc and fals promis __PUNCT__ the recrimin and worn out dogma __PUNCT__ that for far too long have strangl our polit __PUNCT__
we remain a young nation __PUNCT__ but in the word of scriptur __PUNCT__ the time ha come to set asid childish thing __PUNCT__
the time ha come to reaffirm our endur spirit __PUNCT__ to choos our better histori __PUNCT__ to carri forward that preciou gift __PUNCT__ that nobl idea __PUNCT__ pass on from gener to gener __PUNCT__ the god __PUNCT__ given promis that all ar equal __PUNCT__ all ar free __PUNCT__ and all deserv a chanc to pursu their full measur of happi __PUNCT__
in reaffirm the great of our nation __PUNCT__ we understand that great is never a given __PUNCT__
it must be earn __PUNCT__
our journei ha never been on of short __PUNCT__ cut or settl for less __PUNCT__
it ha not been the path for the faint __PUNCT__ heart __PUNCT__ for those who prefer leisur over work __PUNCT__ or seek onli the pleasur of rich and fame __PUNCT__
rather __PUNCT__ it ha been the risk __PUNCT__ taker __PUNCT__ the doer __PUNCT__ the maker of thing __PUNCT__ some celebr but more often men and women obscur in their labor __PUNCT__ who have carri us up the long __PUNCT__ rug path toward prosper and freedom __PUNCT__
for us __PUNCT__ thei pack up their few worldli possess and travel across ocean in search of a new life __PUNCT__
for us __PUNCT__ thei toil in sweatshop and settl the west __PUNCT__ endur the lash of the whip and plow the hard earth __PUNCT__
for us __PUNCT__ thei fought and di __PUNCT__ in place like concord and gettysburg __PUNCT__ normandi and khe sahn __PUNCT__
time and again these men and women struggl and sacrif and work till their hand were raw so that we might live a better life __PUNCT__
thei saw america as bigger than the sum of our individu ambit __PUNCT__ greater than all the differ of birth or wealth or faction __PUNCT__
thi is the journei we continu todai __PUNCT__
we remain the most prosper __PUNCT__ power nation on earth __PUNCT__
our worker ar no less product than when thi crisi began __PUNCT__
our mind ar no less invent __PUNCT__ our good and servic no less need than thei were last week or last month or last year __PUNCT__
our capac remain undiminish __PUNCT__
but our time of stand pat __PUNCT__ of protect narrow interest and put off unpleas decis __PUNCT__ that time ha sure pass __PUNCT__
start todai __PUNCT__ we must pick ourselv up __PUNCT__ dust ourselv off __PUNCT__ and begin again the work of remak america __PUNCT__
for everywher we look __PUNCT__ there is work to be done __PUNCT__
the state of the economi call for action __PUNCT__ bold and swift __PUNCT__ and we will act __PUNCT__ not onli to creat new job __PUNCT__ but to lai a new foundat for growth __PUNCT__
we will build the road and bridg __PUNCT__ the electr grid and digit line that feed our commerc and bind us togeth __PUNCT__
we will restor scienc to it right place __PUNCT__ and wield technolog wonder to rais health care qualiti and lower it cost __PUNCT__
we will har the sun and the wind and the soil to fuel our car and run our factori __PUNCT__
and we will transform our school and colleg and univers to meet the demand of a new ag __PUNCT__
all thi we can do __PUNCT__
and all thi we will do __PUNCT__
now __PUNCT__ there ar some who question the scale of our ambit __PUNCT__ who suggest that our system cannot toler too mani big plan __PUNCT__
their memori ar short __PUNCT__
for thei have forgotten what thi countri ha alreadi done __PUNCT__ what free men and women can achiev when imagin is join to common purpos __PUNCT__ and necess to courag __PUNCT__
what the cynic fail to understand is that the ground ha shift beneath them __PUNCT__ that the stale polit argument that have consum us for so long no longer appli __PUNCT__
the question we ask todai is not whether our govern is too big or too small __PUNCT__ but whether it work __PUNCT__ whether it help famili find job at a decent wage __PUNCT__ care thei can afford __PUNCT__ a retir that is dignifi __PUNCT__
where the answer is ye __PUNCT__ we intend to move forward __PUNCT__
where the answer is no __PUNCT__ program will end __PUNCT__
and those of us who manag the public dollar will be held to account __PUNCT__ to spend wise __PUNCT__ reform bad habit __PUNCT__ and do our busi in the light of dai __PUNCT__ becaus onli then can we restor the vital trust between a peopl and their govern __PUNCT__
nor is the question befor us whether the market is a forc for good or ill __PUNCT__
it power to gener wealth and expand freedom is unmatch __PUNCT__ but thi crisi ha remind us that without a watch ey __PUNCT__ the market can spin out of control __PUNCT__ and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favor onli the prosper __PUNCT__
the success of our economi ha alwai depend not just on the size of our gross domest product __PUNCT__ but on the reach of our prosper __PUNCT__ on the abil to extend opportun to everi will heart __PUNCT__ not out of chariti __PUNCT__ but becaus it is the surest rout to our common good __PUNCT__
as for our common defens __PUNCT__ we reject as fals the choic between our safeti and our ideal __PUNCT__
our found father __PUNCT__ face with peril we can scarc imagin __PUNCT__ draft a charter to assur the rule of law and the right of man __PUNCT__ a charter expand by the blood of gener __PUNCT__
those ideal still light the world __PUNCT__ and we will not give them up for expedi sake __PUNCT__
and so to all other peopl and govern who ar watch todai __PUNCT__ from the grandest capit to the small villag where my father wa born __PUNCT__ know that america is a friend of each nation and everi man __PUNCT__ woman __PUNCT__ and child who seek a futur of peac and digniti __PUNCT__ and we ar readi to lead onc more __PUNCT__
recal that earlier gener face down fascism and commun not just with missil and tank __PUNCT__ but with the sturdi allianc and endur convict __PUNCT__
thei understood that our power alon cannot protect us __PUNCT__ nor doe it entitl us to do as we pleas __PUNCT__
instead __PUNCT__ thei knew that our power grow through it prudent us __PUNCT__ our secur eman from the just of our caus __PUNCT__ the forc of our exampl __PUNCT__ the temper qualiti of humil and restraint __PUNCT__
we ar the keeper of thi legaci __PUNCT__
guid by these principl onc more __PUNCT__ we can meet those new threat that demand even greater effort __PUNCT__ even greater cooper and understand between nation __PUNCT__
we will begin to respons leav iraq to it peopl __PUNCT__ and forg a hard __PUNCT__ earn peac in afghanistan __PUNCT__
with old friend and former foe __PUNCT__ we work tirelessli to lessen the nuclear threat __PUNCT__ and roll back the specter of a warm planet __PUNCT__
we will not apolog for our wai of life __PUNCT__ nor will we waver in it defens __PUNCT__ and for those who seek to advanc their aim by induc terror and slaughter innoc __PUNCT__ we sai to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken __PUNCT__ you cannot outlast us __PUNCT__ and we will defeat you __PUNCT__
for we know that our patchwork heritag is a strength __PUNCT__ not a weak __PUNCT__
we ar a nation of christian and muslim __PUNCT__ jew and hindu __PUNCT__ and non __PUNCT__ believ __PUNCT__
we ar shape by everi languag and cultur __PUNCT__ drawn from everi end of thi earth __PUNCT__ and becaus we have tast the bitter swill of civil war and segreg __PUNCT__ and emerg from that dark chapter stronger and more unit __PUNCT__ we cannot help but believ that the old hatr shall somedai pass __PUNCT__ that the line of tribe shall soon dissolv __PUNCT__ that as the world grow smaller __PUNCT__ our common human shall reveal itself __PUNCT__ and that america must plai it role in usher in a new era of peac __PUNCT__
to the muslim world __PUNCT__ we seek a new wai forward __PUNCT__ base on mutual interest and mutual respect __PUNCT__
to those leader around the globe who seek to sow conflict __PUNCT__ or blame their societi ill on the west __PUNCT__ know that your peopl will judg you on what you can build __PUNCT__ not what you destroi __PUNCT__
to those who cling to power through corrupt and deceit and the silenc of dissent __PUNCT__ know that you ar on the wrong side of histori __PUNCT__ but that we will extend a hand if you ar will to unclench your fist __PUNCT__
to the peopl of poor nation __PUNCT__ we pledg to work alongsid you to make your farm flourish and let clean water flow __PUNCT__ to nourish starv bodi and feed hungri mind __PUNCT__
and to those nation like our that enjoi rel plenti __PUNCT__ we sai we can no longer afford indiffer to the suffer outsid our border __PUNCT__ nor can we consum the world resourc without regard to effect __PUNCT__
for the world ha chang __PUNCT__ and we must chang with it __PUNCT__
as we consid the road that unfold befor us __PUNCT__ we rememb with humbl gratitud those brave american who __PUNCT__ at thi veri hour __PUNCT__ patrol far __PUNCT__ off desert and distant mountain __PUNCT__
thei have someth to tell us __PUNCT__ just as the fallen hero who lie in arlington whisper through the ag __PUNCT__
we honor them not onli becaus thei ar guardian of our liberti __PUNCT__ but becaus thei embodi the spirit of servic __PUNCT__ a willing to find mean in someth greater than themselv __PUNCT__
and yet __PUNCT__ at thi moment __PUNCT__ a moment that will defin a gener __PUNCT__ it is precis thi spirit that must inhabit us all __PUNCT__
for as much as govern can do and must do __PUNCT__ it is ultim the faith and determin of the american peopl upon which thi nation reli __PUNCT__
it is the kind to take in a stranger when the leve break __PUNCT__ the selfless of worker who would rather cut their hour than see a friend lose their job which see us through our darkest hour __PUNCT__
it is the firefight courag to storm a stairwai fill with smoke __PUNCT__ but also a parent willing to nurtur a child __PUNCT__ that final decid our fate __PUNCT__
our challeng mai be new __PUNCT__
the instrument with which we meet them mai be new __PUNCT__
but those valu upon which our success depend __PUNCT__ honesti and hard work __PUNCT__ courag and fair plai __PUNCT__ toler and curios __PUNCT__ loyalti and patriot __PUNCT__ these thing ar old __PUNCT__
these thing ar true __PUNCT__
thei have been the quiet forc of progress throughout our histori __PUNCT__
what is demand then is a return to these truth __PUNCT__
what is requir of us now is a new era of respons __PUNCT__ a recognit __PUNCT__ on the part of everi american __PUNCT__ that we have duti to ourselv __PUNCT__ our nation __PUNCT__ and the world __PUNCT__ duti that we do not grudgingli accept but rather seiz gladli __PUNCT__ firm in the knowledg that there is noth so satisfi to the spirit __PUNCT__ so defin of our charact __PUNCT__ than give our all to a difficult task __PUNCT__
thi is the price and the promis of citizenship __PUNCT__
thi is the sourc of our confid __PUNCT__ the knowledg that god call on us to shape an uncertain destini __PUNCT__
thi is the mean of our liberti and our creed __PUNCT__ why men and women and children of everi race and everi faith can join in celebr across thi magnific mall __PUNCT__ and why a man whose father less than sixti year ago might not have been serv at a local restaur can now stand befor you to take a most sacr oath __PUNCT__
so let us mark thi dai with remembr __PUNCT__ of who we ar and how far we have travel __PUNCT__
in the year of america birth __PUNCT__ in the coldest of month __PUNCT__ a small band of patriot huddl by dy campfir on the shore of an ici river __PUNCT__
the capit wa abandon __PUNCT__
the enemi wa advanc __PUNCT__
the snow wa stain with blood __PUNCT__
at a moment when the outcom of our revolut wa most in doubt __PUNCT__ the father of our nation order these word be read to the peopl __PUNCT__ let it be told to the futur __URL__ in the depth of winter __PUNCT__ when noth but hope and virtu could __URL__ the citi and the countri __PUNCT__ alarm at on common danger __PUNCT__ came forth to meet __PUNCT__ it __PUNCT__
america __PUNCT__
in the face of our common danger __PUNCT__ in thi winter of our hardship __PUNCT__ let us rememb these timeless word __PUNCT__
with hope and virtu __PUNCT__ let us brave onc more the ici current __PUNCT__ and endur what storm mai come __PUNCT__
let it be said by our children children that when we were test we refus to let thi journei end __PUNCT__ that we did not turn back nor did we falter __PUNCT__ and with ey fix on the horizon and god grace upon us __PUNCT__ we carri forth that great gift of freedom and deliv it safe to futur gener __PUNCT__
thank you __PUNCT__
god bless you and god bless the unit state of america __PUNCT__
