This peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, […]

Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.

America’s responsibility to history is to rid the world of evil. (speaking at the National Cathedral on September 14, 2001)

At some point, we may be the only ones left. That’s OK with me. We are America.

America is, the harder you work, the easier the middle class ought to become, and the more money you get to keep. (National Newspaper Association 40th Annual Government Affairs Conference, Washington, D.C., Mar. 22, 2001)

Well, it’s an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We’re blessed with such values in America. And I – it’s – I’m a proud man to be the nation based upon such […]

It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old. The story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom. The story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story.