Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 3, 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 4, 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 3, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 3, 1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 4, 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 3, 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 7, 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 11, 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1945

Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, January 21, 1946 Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1947 Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, January 7, 1948 Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, January 5, 1949 Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, January 4, 1950 Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, January 8, 1951 Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, January 9, 1952 Harry S. Truman, State of the Union Address, January 7, 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, February 2, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, January 7, 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1955 Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, January 5, 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, January 10, 1957 Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, January 9, 1958 Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, January 9, 1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, January 7, 1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of the Union Address, January 12, 1961

John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address, January 30, 1961 John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address, January 11, 1962 John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address, January 14, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, January 8, 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, January 4, 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, January 12, 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, January 10, 1967 Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, January 17, 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, January 14, 1969

Richard Nixon, State of the Union Address, January 22, 1970 Richard Nixon, State of the Union Address, January 22, 1971 Richard Nixon, State of the Union Address, January 20, 1972 Richard Nixon, State of the Union Address, February 2, 1973 Richard Nixon, State of the Union Address, January 30, 1974

Gerald R. Ford, State of the Union Address, January 15, 1975 Gerald R. Ford, State of the Union Address, January 19, 1976 Gerald R. Ford, State of the Union Address, January 12, 1977

Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address, January 19, 1978 Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1979 Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address, January 21, 1980 Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address, January 16, 1981

Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 26, 1982 Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1983 Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1984 Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, February 6, 1985 Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, February 4, 1986 Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 27, 1987 Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1988

George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address, February 9, 1989 George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 31, 1990 George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 1991 George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 28, 1992

William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 17, 1993 William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1994 William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 24, 1995 William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996 William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, February 4, 1997 William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 27, 1998 William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 19, 1999 William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 27, 2000

George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, February 27, 2001 George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, September 20, 2001 George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002 George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003 George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 20, 2004 George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, February 2, 2005 George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 31, 2006 George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 23, 2007 George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 28, 2008

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State of the Union Address George Washington January 8, 1790

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives:

I embrace with great satisfaction the opportunity which now presents itself of congratulating you on the present favorable prospects of our public affairs. The recent accession of the important state of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States (of which official information has been received), the rising credit and respectability of our country, the general and increasing good will toward the government of the Union, and the concord, peace, and plenty with which we are blessed are circumstances auspicious in an eminent degree to our national prosperity.

In resuming your consultations for the general good you can not but derive encouragement from the reflection that the measures of the last session have been as satisfactory to your constituents as the novelty and difficulty of the work allowed you to hope. Still further to realize their expectations and to secure the blessings which a gracious Providence has placed within our reach will in the course of the present important session call for the cool and deliberate exertion of your patriotism, firmness, and wisdom.

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

The proper establishment of the troops which may be deemed indispensable will be entitled to mature consideration. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers with a due regard to economy.

There was reason to hope that the pacific measures adopted with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians would have relieved the inhabitants of our southern and western frontiers from their depredations, but you will perceive from the information contained in the papers which I shall direct to be laid before you (comprehending a communication from the Commonwealth of Virginia) that we ought to be prepared to afford protection to those parts of the Union, and, if necessary, to punish aggressors.

The interests of the United States require that our intercourse with other nations should be facilitated by such provisions as will enable me to fulfill my duty in that respect in the manner which circumstances may render most conducive to the public good, and to this end that the compensation to be made to the persons who may be employed should, according to the nature of their appointments, be defined by law, and a competent fund designated for defraying the expenses incident to the conduct of foreign affairs.

Various considerations also render it expedient that the terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of citizens should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

The advancement of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures by all proper means will not, I trust, need recommendation; but I can not forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home, and of facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country by a due attention to the post-office and post-roads.

Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential.