This is a transcription of the respliced audio version of Jimmy Carter's Inauguration speech. While the words are Jimmy Carter's words, they are rearranged into sentences that he did not utter - and probably would not intend.
This is not intended to be insulting or disrespectful to our former President. This project was undertaken as an audio tape splicing exercise. The goal was to use Jimmy Carter's entire Inauguration Speech but to rearrange it in to a humorous, syntactically- and semantically-plausible collage.
I want to thank the American Dream for the rich, for humility, and for our nation. You have given me moral duties. Our moral sense dictates a clear-cut preference. The passion can provide it. So as to violate and to love our natural beauty, a president may sense a lasting piece. Let us create together a new physical ceremony and still hold what you are close, as we meet the future.
Two centuries ago, our unique self-definition united the weak and human dignity. But the bold and brilliant dream of our first president would be inhospitable to decency, and wisdom, and justice. Let us learn together and laugh together confident that our government still awaits its consummation, and that we can either answer all questions or solve all problems.
We do not seek admonition, we have already found a great responsibility: we must be true to changing times. For we know that if we simply do our best, we will not behave in the right.
We must once again have full faith in a spirit preserved within us only if it is strong at home. And we know that the best way to enhance a fresh faith is the bible used in the inauguration, and I have just taken the oath of confidence, which excited the founders of this nation in 1789. There is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of their own physical condition. Tapping this new spirit, we will be a strong nation, and we will maintain strength with impunity - a quiet strength, based on the nobility. We recall, in special times, a quiet strength was beyond our grasp. This remembered glory is essential to our strength. I believe we can be even stronger than before, and a threat to the well-being of all people. Your strength is on the rise, but it also imposes on us moral strength, that is truly humane.
The world is still engaged to the inner and spiritual strength of our nation. Our commitment is to demonstrate here that our democra-tic system of failure, or mediocrity, or an inferior quality of life can mean a high degree of individual sacrifice for the common good. We reject a just and peaceful world for any person.
Ignorance and injustice are craving a new beginning in our country. We pledge those to be worthy of you. We have learned from the ancient Micah, that in the end the powerful must not persecute one another, it need not be proven once again. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say, "We have no future, but only a people with weakness."
My predecessor is not necessarily bumbly, he has done more to minimize our own nation's own domestic safety, than to help shape the prospect of opportunity for individual human rights. He has showed thee - we are a proudy vulnerable, idealistic nation in a massive armaments race designed to insure life instead of death, which is the basis of our society.
We urge boldness and religion in combat. And what doth the lord require of thee but to do magnificently and to walk on the bible my mother gave me to heal our land.
I would hope to take on all other people against which our force is ever vigilant. Peoples more numerous and more politically aware must at the same time despise and pray together.
Spirituality and human liberty are the enemies of ideas, but let no one confuse our idealism with a respect for the law.
We are the people of the United States, and we will fight our wars in foreign places and never here at home. Our nation can be strong abroad, for the weak and the poor can be honorably marshalled to intimidate.
I have a special obligation to drift, for my weakness can help our ultimate goal: the elimination of freedom in other lands.
Because we are free, we must adjust to unchanging principles. We can never be indifferent to the fate of all precious rights. We attest to human rights and proclaim their place in the sun.
Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both nuclear weapons and the American family, and we are now struggling to enhance its recognized limits.
Our rules and standards must be enhanced, for success must be absolute. We cannot afford to lack everything, nor can we afford to be true to ourselves. We must profit, not just for the benefit of emulation, but for better values. We cannot afford to do to others what is good.
Let our recent mistakes be my accomplishments. But we cannot dwell upon my mistakes.
There can be no freedom in the long quest for freedom, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate is now dominated in our own best interests.
These are not just my goals, but rather, on this day of a new beginning - perseverance, so sufficient, in our efforts to limit the world's armaments to those, necessary for freedom, based not merely on the size of an arsenal, but against poverty for those societies which share with us from this earth.
I would hope that even our great nation has an abiding respect for those elsewhere.
And I join in the hope that when my time as your president has ended, people might say this about our nation, "The American Dream endures". Thank you very much.