"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out."- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."
-Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, noted statesman and orator, Nobel Prize-winning writer, artist
To follow the day of a new President of the United States, visit the official scrapbook for the day at Tumblr or see the Official Presidential Inaugural Committee Twitter log at http://twitter.com/obamainaugural for other real-time communications.
Photo: Barack Obama speaking at Wesleyan University Commencement, Middletown, Conn., May 25, 2008.
