This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom.

To achieve progress without strife.

To achieve change without strife. To achieve change without hatred.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend,

but we can try to make no one our enemy.

Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust.

How can we love our country and not love our countrymen?

And loving them, reach out a hand when they fall.

To my friends, and yes I do mean friends, in the loyal opposition, and yes, I mean loyal. I put out my hand.

I ask the Congress to join with me, but no president, no Congress, no government can undertake

this mission alone.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment.

It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community, over chaos.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over feet.

Unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric.

We have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

They are not our enemies.

They are Americans.

It's a new dawn.

It's a new day.

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