Here you can find the text and video of the inaugural address of the President. Having read it I have to say it is perhaps one of the most visionary speeches heard since Ronald Reagan. And it is fitting that it stresses the same theme, liberty, that was also a favorite of President Reagan. But the ideas in this speech go further by pointing out that liberty is the common wish of people everywhere, and that the spread of liberty has very practical and beneficial consequences to everyone's security and well-being.
America will abandon the realpolitic which has been in fashion for so long and with limited success, and replace it with a pro-active policy which will encourage the spread of freedom to all corners of the globe. It is easy to see that the greatest dangers around the world today come from nations which are not free and run by those who wish only for a greater accumulation of power to themselves and from fanatical groups that desire the power of guns and bombs rather than the consent of free people.
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