Barack Obama's 2013 Inauguration Speech

President Barack Obama in his second inaugural address in 2013 talked about the meaning of freedom and the work still to be done on behalf of women, gay men and women, immigrants and others. “What makes us exceptional — what makes us American — is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’”