		Topic	Quotation
2021	Biden	Virus	A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.
2017	Trump	Jobs	Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed.
2013	Obama	Jobs	We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries.
2009	Obama	Jobs	Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered.
2005	Bush	Tyranny	The great objective of ending tyranny is the concentrated work of generations.
2001	Bush	Schools	Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.
1997	Clinton	Streets	Our streets will echo again with the laughter of our children, because no one will try to shoot them or sell them drugs anymore.
1993	Clinton	Economy	We have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.
1989	Bush	Children	There are the children who have nothing, no love, no normalcy.
1985	Reagan	Nuclear	We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.
1981	Reagan	Productivity	Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.
1977	Carter	Freedom	The passion for freedom is on the rise.
1973	Nixon	Abroad	Let us encourage individuals at home and nations abroad to do more for themselves.
1969	Nixon	Moon	As the Apollo astronauts flew over the moon […] they spoke to us of the beauty of earth.
1965	Johnson	Rocket	Even now, a rocket moves towards Mars.
1961	Kennedy	Globe	The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
1957	Eisenhower	Conflict	We are called to act a responsible role in the world's great concerns or conflicts.
1953	Eisenhower	Divided	In the heart of Europe, Germany still stands tragically divided.
1949	Truman	Democracy	Democracy has proved that social justice can be achieved through peaceful change.
1945	Roosevelt	Peace	We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.
1941	Roosevelt	Democracy	Democracy is not dying.
1937	Roosevelt	Despair	True, we have come far from the days of stagnation and despair.
1933	Roosevelt	Profit	Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations.
1929	Hoover	Liquor	There would be little traffic in illegal liquor if only criminals patronized it.
1925	Coolidge	Property	We have responded to appeals for help to maintain order, protect life and property, and establish responsible government in some of the small countries of the Western Hemisphere.
1921	Harding	Warfare	Our freedom never has made offensive warfare.
1917	Wilson	Industrial	We have sought very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser errors and abuses of our industrial life.
1913	Wilson	Waste	With riches has come inexcusable waste.
1909	Taft	Antitrust	Restrictions of the antitrust law have been urged by my predecessor and will be urged by me.
1905	Roosevelt	Power	No weak nation that acts manfully and justly should ever have cause to fear us.
1901	McKinley	Cuba	We became sponsors for the pacification of the island, and we remain accountable to the Cubans.
1897	McKinley	Loan	A surplus in the Treasury created by loans is not a permanent or safe reliance.
1893	Cleveland	Frugality	Frugality among the people is the best guaranty of a contented and strong support of free institutions.
1889	Harrison	Elector	If […] public security is thought to be threatened by ignorance among the electors, the obvious remedy is education.
1885	Cleveland	Extravagance	Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.
1881	Garfield	Monetary system	Gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system.
1877	Hayes	Southern	Many of the calamitous efforts of the tremendous revolution which has passed over the Southern States still remain.
1873	Grant	Santo Domingo	In the first year of the past Administration the proposition came up for the admission of Santo Domingo.
1869	Grant	Dollar	To protect the national honor, every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold.
1865	Lincoln	War	Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive.
1861	Lincoln	Secession	Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy.
1857	Buchanon	Territory	Congress is neither to legislate slavery into any Territory or State nor to exclude it therefrom.
1853	Pierce	Constitutional	The great scheme of our constitutional liberty rests upon a proper distribution of power between the State and Federal authorities.
1849	Taylor	Protection	[I will grant] protection to the great interests of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures.
1845	Polk	Texas	The Republic of Texas has made known her desire to come into our Union.
1841	Harrison	Metallic currency	The rich are daily adding to their hoards and the poor sinking deeper into penury [because of the] exclusive metallic currency.
1837	van Buren	Institutions	If the agitation of [abolitionists] was intended to reach the stability of our institutions, […] it has signally failed.
1833	Jackson	Government	The destruction of our State governments [would lead to] despotism and military domination.
1829	Jackson	Revenue	The management of the public revenue […] is among the most delicate and important trusts in ours.
1825	Adams	Construction	But nearly twenty years have passed since the construction of the first national road was commenced.
1821	Monroe	Florida	But to the acquisition of Florida too much importance can not be attached.
1817	Monroe	Invasion	With such an organization of such a people the United States have nothing to dread from foreign invasion.
1813	Madison	British	British commanders have extorted victory [by threatening our troops with] massacre from their savage associates.
1809	Madison	Peace	[I pledge] to cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations having correspondent dispositions.
1805	Jefferson	Press	The artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare.
1801	Jefferson	Administration	[I pledge] support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns.
1797	Adams	Constitution	I have repeatedly laid myself under the most serious obligations to support the Constitution.
1793	Washington	Constitution	Previous to the execution of any official act of the President the Constitution requires an oath of office.
1789	Washington	Free government	There are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.