http://www.wordnik.com/lists/prosie-obamas-inaugural-address.xml In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling. <br /> <br /><a href="/words/My fellow citizens">My fellow citizens</a>: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have <a href="/words/bestowed">bestowed</a>, <a href="/words/mindful">mindful</a> of the sacrifices <a href="/words/borne">borne</a> by our <a href="/words/ancestors">ancestors</a>. <br /> <br />I thank President Bush for his <a href="/words/service">service</a> to our nation, as well as the <a href="/words/generosity">generosity</a> and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. <br /> <br />Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential <a href="/words/oath">oath</a>. <br /> <br />The words have been spoken during <a href="/words/rising tides of prosperity">rising tides of prosperity</a> and the <a href="/words/still waters of peace">still waters of peace</a>. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst <a href="/words/gathering clouds">gathering clouds</a> and <a href="/words/raging storms">raging storms</a>. At these moments, <a href="/words/America">America</a> has carried on not simply because of the skill or <a href="/words/vision">vision</a> of those in <a href="/words/high office">high office</a>, but because <a href="/words/We the People">We the People</a> have remained faithful to the <a href="/words/ideals">ideals</a> of our <a href="/words/forebears">forebears</a>, and true to <a href="/words/our founding documents">our founding documents</a>. <br /> <br />So it has been. So it must be with this <a href="/words/generation">generation</a> of Americans. <br /> <br />That we are in the midst of <a href="/words/crisis">crisis</a> is now well understood. Our nation is <a href="/words/at war">at war</a> against a <a href="/words/far-reaching">far-reaching</a> network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly <a href="/words/weakened">weakened</a>, a consequence of greed and <a href="/words/irresponsibility">irresponsibility</a> on the part of some but also <a href="/words/our collective failure">our collective failure</a> to make hard choices and prepare the nation for <a href="/words/a new age">a new age</a>. <br /> <br />Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our <a href="/words/adversaries">adversaries</a> and threaten our <a href="/words/planet">planet</a>. <br /> <br />These are the <a href="/words/indicators">indicators</a> of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less <a href="/words/measurable">measurable</a>, but no less <a href="/words/profound">profound</a>, is a <a href="/words/sapping of confidence">sapping of confidence</a> across our land; a <a href="/words/nagging fear">nagging fear</a> that America's <a href="/words/decline is inevitable">decline is inevitable</a>, that the next generation must lower its sights. <br /> <br />Today I say to you that the <a href="/words/challenges">challenges</a> we face are real, they are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met. <br /> <br />On this day, we gather because we have chosen <a href="/words/hope over fear">hope over fear</a>, <a href="/words/unity of purpose">unity of purpose</a> over conflict and <a href="/words/discord">discord</a>. <br /> <br />On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty <a href="/words/grievances">grievances</a> and false promises, the <a href="/words/recriminations">recriminations</a> and worn-out <a href="/words/dogmas">dogmas</a> that for far too long have <a href="/words/strangled">strangled</a> our politics. <br /> <br />We remain a young nation, but in the words of <a href="/words/Scripture">Scripture</a>, the time has come to set aside <a href="/words/childish">childish</a> things. The time has come to reaffirm our <a href="/words/enduring">enduring</a> spirit; to choose our better <a href="/words/history">history</a>; to <a href="/words/carry forward">carry forward</a> that <a href="/words/precious">precious</a> gift, that <a href="/words/noble">noble</a> idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that <a href="/words/all are equal">all are equal</a>, <a href="/words/all are free">all are free</a>, and all deserve a chance to pursue their <a href="/words/full measure">full measure</a> of happiness. <br /> <br />In reaffirming the <a href="/words/greatness">greatness</a> of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be <a href="/words/earned">earned</a>. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. <br /> <br />It has not been the path for the <a href="/words/faint-hearted">faint-hearted</a>, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. <br /> <br />Rather, it has been the <a href="/words/risk-takers">risk-takers</a>, the <a href="/words/doers">doers</a>, the <a href="/words/makers">makers</a> of things—some celebrated, but more often men and women <a href="/words/obscure in their labor">obscure in their labor</a>—who have carried us up the long, <a href="/words/rugged">rugged</a> path towards <a href="/words/prosperity">prosperity</a> and <a href="/words/freedom">freedom</a>. <br /> <br /><a href="/words/For us">For us</a>, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. For us, they <a href="/words/toiled">toiled</a> in <a href="/words/sweatshops">sweatshops</a> and settled <a href="/words/the West">the West</a>, endured the <a href="/words/lash">lash</a> of the whip and <a href="/words/plowed">plowed</a> the hard earth. <br /> <br />For us, they fought and died in places like <a href="/words/Concord">Concord</a> and <a href="/words/Gettysburg">Gettysburg</a>; <a href="/words/Normandy">Normandy</a> and <a href="/words/Khe Sanh">Khe Sanh</a>. <br /> <br />Time and again these men and women <a href="/words/struggled">struggled</a> and <a href="/words/sacrificed">sacrificed</a> and worked till their <a href="/words/hands were raw">hands were raw</a> so that we might live <a href="/words/a better life">a better life</a>. <br /> <br />They saw America as bigger than the sum of our <a href="/words/individual">individual</a> ambitions; greater than all the differences of <a href="/words/birth">birth</a> or <a href="/words/wealth">wealth</a> or <a href="/words/faction">faction</a>. <br /> <br />This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most <a href="/words/prosperous">prosperous</a>, <a href="/words/powerful">powerful</a> nation on Earth. Our workers are no less <a href="/words/productive">productive</a> than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less <a href="/words/inventive">inventive</a>, our goods and services no less <a href="/words/needed">needed</a> than they were last week or last month or last year. Our <a href="/words/capacity">capacity</a> remains <a href="/words/undiminished">undiminished</a>. But our time of standing pat, of protecting <a href="/words/narrow">narrow</a> interests and putting off <a href="/words/unpleasant">unpleasant</a> decisions—that time has surely passed. <br /> <br />Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of <a href="/words/remaking">remaking</a> America. For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. <br /> <br />The state of our economy calls for <a href="/words/action">action</a>: <a href="/words/bold">bold</a> and <a href="/words/swift">swift</a>. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for <a href="/words/growth">growth</a>. <br /> <br />We will build the <a href="/words/roads">roads</a> and <a href="/words/bridges">bridges</a>, the <a href="/words/electric">electric</a> grids and <a href="/words/digital">digital</a> lines that feed our <a href="/words/commerce">commerce</a> and bind us together. <br /> <br />We will <a href="/words/restore">restore</a> <a href="/words/science">science</a> to its <a href="/words/rightful place">rightful place</a> and <a href="/words/wield">wield</a> technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs. We will <a href="/words/harness">harness</a> the <a href="/words/sun">sun</a> and the <a href="/words/winds">winds</a> and the <a href="/words/soil">soil</a> to <a href="/words/fuel">fuel</a> our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. <br /> <br />All this we can do. All this we will do. <br /> <br />Now, there are some who question the <a href="/words/scale">scale</a> of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot <a href="/words/tolerate">tolerate</a> too many big plans. Their <a href="/words/memories">memories</a> are <a href="/words/short">short</a>, for they have <a href="/words/forgotten">forgotten</a> what this country has already done, what <a href="/words/free men and women">free men and women</a> can achieve when <a href="/words/imagination">imagination</a> is joined to <a href="/words/common purpose">common purpose</a> and <a href="/words/necessity">necessity</a> to <a href="/words/courage">courage</a>. <br /> <br />What the <a href="/words/cynics">cynics</a> <a href="/words/fail">fail</a> to understand is that the <a href="/words/ground has shifted">ground has shifted</a> beneath them, that the <a href="/words/stale">stale</a> political arguments that have <a href="/words/consumed">consumed</a> us for <a href="/words/so long">so long</a>, <a href="/words/no longer">no longer</a> apply. <br /> <br />The question we ask today is not whether our <a href="/words/government">government</a> is too big or too small, but whether it works, whether it helps families find jobs at a <a href="/words/decent wage">decent wage</a>, care they can afford, a <a href="/words/retirement">retirement</a> that is <a href="/words/dignified">dignified</a>. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. <br /> <br />And those of us who manage the public's <a href="/words/dollars">dollars</a> will be held to account, to <a href="/words/spend wisely">spend wisely</a>, <a href="/words/reform">reform</a> bad habits, and do our business in the <a href="/words/light of day">light of day</a>, because only then can we restore the <a href="/words/vital">vital</a> trust between a people and their government. <br /> <br />Nor is the question before us whether the <a href="/words/market">market</a> is a force for good or ill. Its power to <a href="/words/generate">generate</a> wealth and <a href="/words/expand freedom">expand freedom</a> is <a href="/words/unmatched">unmatched</a>. But this crisis has reminded us that without a <a href="/words/watchful eye">watchful eye</a>, the market can spin <a href="/words/out of control">out of control</a>. The nation cannot <a href="/words/prosper">prosper</a> long when it favors only the prosperous. <br /> <br />The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our <a href="/words/gross domestic product">gross domestic product</a>, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend <a href="/words/opportunity">opportunity</a> to every <a href="/words/willing heart">willing heart</a>—not out of <a href="/words/charity">charity</a>, but because it is <a href="/words/the surest route">the surest route</a> to our <a href="/words/common good">common good</a>. <br /> <br />As for our <a href="/words/common defense">common defense</a>, we <a href="/words/reject">reject</a> as false the choice between our <a href="/words/safety">safety</a> and our ideals. Our <a href="/words/founding fathers">founding fathers</a>, faced with <a href="/words/perils">perils</a> that we can <a href="/words/scarcely">scarcely</a> imagine, drafted a <a href="/words/charter">charter</a> to assure <a href="/words/the rule of law">the rule of law</a> and <a href="/words/the rights of man">the rights of man</a>, a charter expanded by the <a href="/words/blood">blood</a> of generations. <br /> <br />Those ideals still <a href="/words/light the world">light the world</a>, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. <br /> <br />And so, to all other peoples and governments who are <a href="/words/watching">watching</a> today, from the <a href="/words/grandest">grandest</a> <a href="/words/capitals">capitals</a> to the small <a href="/words/village">village</a> where my father was born: know that America is a <a href="/words/friend">friend</a> of each nation and every man, woman and child who seeks a <a href="/words/future">future</a> of <a href="/words/peace">peace</a> and <a href="/words/dignity">dignity</a>, and we are ready to lead once more. <br /> <br />Recall that <a href="/words/earlier">earlier</a> generations <a href="/words/faced down">faced down</a> <a href="/words/fascism">fascism</a> and <a href="/words/communism">communism</a> not just with <a href="/words/missiles">missiles</a> and <a href="/words/tanks">tanks</a>, but with <a href="/words/sturdy alliances">sturdy alliances</a> and enduring <a href="/words/convictions">convictions</a>. <br /> <br />They understood that our <a href="/words/power">power</a> alone cannot protect us, nor does it <a href="/words/entitle">entitle</a> us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its <a href="/words/prudent">prudent</a> use. Our security <a href="/words/emanates">emanates</a> from the justness of our cause; the <a href="/words/force">force</a> of our <a href="/words/example">example</a>; the <a href="/words/tempering">tempering</a> qualities of <a href="/words/humility">humility</a> and <a href="/words/restraint">restraint</a>. <br /> <br />We are the <a href="/words/keepers">keepers</a> of this <a href="/words/legacy">legacy</a>. Guided by these <a href="/words/principles">principles</a> once more, we can meet those new <a href="/words/threats">threats</a> that <a href="/words/demand">demand</a> even greater effort, even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We'll begin to <a href="/words/responsibly">responsibly</a> leave Iraq to its people and <a href="/words/forge">forge</a> a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. <br /> <br />With <a href="/words/old friends">old friends</a> and former foes, we'll work <a href="/words/tirelessly">tirelessly</a> to lessen the nuclear threat and <a href="/words/roll back">roll back</a> the <a href="/words/specter">specter</a> of a warming planet. <br /> <br />We will not <a href="/words/apologize">apologize</a> for <a href="/words/our way of life">our way of life</a> nor will we <a href="/words/waver">waver</a> in its <a href="/words/defense">defense</a>. <br /> <br />And for <a href="/words/those who seek">those who seek</a> to advance their aims by inducing <a href="/words/terror">terror</a> and <a href="/words/slaughtering">slaughtering</a> innocents, we say to you now that, "Our <a href="/words/spirit">spirit</a> is stronger and cannot be broken. You cannot <a href="/words/outlast">outlast</a> us, and we will <a href="/words/defeat">defeat</a> you." <br /> <br />For we know that <a href="/words/our patchwork heritage">our patchwork heritage</a> is a <a href="/words/strength">strength</a>, not a weakness. <br /> <br />We are a nation of <a href="/words/Christians">Christians</a> and <a href="/words/Muslims">Muslims</a>, <a href="/words/Jews">Jews</a> and <a href="/words/Hindus">Hindus</a>, and <a href="/words/nonbelievers">nonbelievers</a>. We are shaped by every <a href="/words/language">language</a> and <a href="/words/culture">culture</a>, <a href="/words/drawn from">drawn from</a> every end of this Earth. <br /> <br />And because we have tasted the <a href="/words/bitter swill">bitter swill</a> of civil war and <a href="/words/segregation">segregation</a> and emerged from that <a href="/words/dark chapter">dark chapter</a> stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that <a href="/words/the old hatreds">the old hatreds</a> shall someday pass; that the lines of <a href="/words/tribe">tribe</a> shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common <a href="/words/humanity">humanity</a> shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in <a href="/words/ushering">ushering</a> in a new era of peace. <br /> <br />To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. <br /> <br />To those leaders around the globe who seek to <a href="/words/sow">sow</a> conflict or <a href="/words/blame">blame</a> their society's ills on the West, know that your <a href="/words/people will judge you on what you can build">people will judge you on what you can build</a>, not what you destroy. <br /> <br />To those who <a href="/words/cling to power">cling to power</a> through corruption and <a href="/words/deceit">deceit</a> and the <a href="/words/silencing of dissent">silencing of dissent</a>, know that you are on <a href="/words/the wrong side of history">the wrong side of history</a>, but that we will <a href="/words/extend a hand">extend a hand</a> if you are willing to <a href="/words/unclench your fist">unclench your fist</a>. <br /> <br />To the people of poor nations, we <a href="/words/pledge">pledge</a> to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. <br /> <br />And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative <a href="/words/plenty">plenty</a>, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. <br /> <br />For <a href="/words/the world has changed, and we must change with it">the world has changed, and we must change with it</a>. <br /> <br />As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble <a href="/words/gratitude">gratitude</a> those <a href="/words/brave">brave</a> Americans who, <a href="/words/at this very hour">at this very hour</a>, <a href="/words/patrol">patrol</a> far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us, just as the <a href="/words/fallen heroes">fallen heroes</a> who lie in <a href="/words/Arlington">Arlington</a> <a href="/words/whisper through the ages">whisper through the ages</a>. <br /> <br />We honor them not only because they are <a href="/words/guardians of our liberty">guardians of our liberty</a>, but because they embody the <a href="/words/spirit of service">spirit of service</a>: a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. <br /> <br />And yet, at this moment, a moment that will define a generation, it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all. <br /> <br />For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. <br /> <br />It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the <a href="/words/levees">levees</a> break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our <a href="/words/darkest hours">darkest hours</a>. <br /> <br />It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate. <br /> <br />Our challenges may be new, the instruments with which we meet them may be new, but those values upon which our success depends, honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism—these things are old. <br /> <br />These things are true. They have been <a href="/words/the quiet force of progress">the quiet force of progress</a> throughout our history. <br /> <br />What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task. <br /> <br />This is the <a href="/words/price">price</a> and the <a href="/words/promise">promise</a> of <a href="/words/citizenship">citizenship</a>. <br /> <br />This is the source of our <a href="/words/confidence">confidence</a>: the <a href="/words/knowledge">knowledge</a> that God calls on us to shape an uncertain <a href="/words/destiny">destiny</a>. <br /> <br />This is the meaning of our <a href="/words/liberty">liberty</a> and our creed, why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this <a href="/words/magnificent">magnificent</a> mall. And why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath. <br /> <br />So let us mark this day in remembrance of who we are and how far we have traveled. <br /> <br />In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of <a href="/words/patriots">patriots</a> huddled by nine <a href="/words/campfires">campfires</a> on the shores of an icy river. <br />The <a href="/words/capital">capital</a> was <a href="/words/abandoned">abandoned</a>. The <a href="/words/enemy">enemy</a> was advancing. The <a href="/words/snow">snow</a> was stained with blood. <br /> <br />At a moment when the outcome of our <a href="/words/revolution">revolution</a> was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people: <br />"Let it be told to the future world that in the <a href="/words/depth of winter">depth of winter</a>, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, <a href="/words/alarmed">alarmed</a> at one common danger, came forth to meet it." <br /> <br />America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words; with <a href="/words/hope">hope</a> and <a href="/words/virtue">virtue</a>, let us brave once more the <a href="/words/icy currents">icy currents</a>, and endure <a href="/words/what storms may come">what storms may come</a>; let it be said by our children's children that <a href="/words/when we were tested">when we were tested</a> we refused to let this journey end, that <a href="/words/we did not turn back nor did we falter">we did not turn back nor did we falter</a>; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. <br /> <br />Thank you. God bless you. 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