【正文】 ildren, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from is our generation’s taskto make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of does not mean we alldefine liberty in exactly the same way or follow the same precise path to does not pel us to settle centurieslong debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.(Applause.)For now decisions are upon us and we cannot afford cannot mistake absolutism forprinciple, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat namecalling as reasoned debate.(Applause.)We must act, knowing that our work will be must act, knowing that today’s victories will be only partial and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years and 40 years and 400 years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in aspare Philadelphia fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and country, not party or we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our the words I spoketoday are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty or an immigrant realizes her oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to theflag that waves above and that fills our hearts with are the words of citizens and they represent our greatest and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country’s and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our timenot only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift indefense of our most ancient values and enduring ideals.(Applause.)Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our mon effort and mon purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of bless you, and may He forever bless these United States of America.(Applause.)第二篇：2013年奧巴馬連任就職演講(上)THE PRESIDENT: Vice President Biden, Justice,members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of our affirm the promise of our recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our makes us exceptionalwhat makes us Americanis our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago:“We hold these truths to be selfevident, 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.”Today we continue a neverending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our history tells us that while these truths may be selfevident, they’ve never been selfexecuting。that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.(Applause.)The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyrannyof a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding for more than two hundred years, we blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive halfslave and made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward , we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and merce, schools and colleges to train our , we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensurepetition and fair , we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government celebrationBut we have always understood that when times change, so must we。that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges。that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or munism with muskets and single person can train all the math and of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our teachers we’ll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our , more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people.(Applause.)This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our decade of war is now ending.(Applause.)An economic recovery has begun.(Applause.)America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive。diversity and openness。an endless capacityfor risk and a gift for fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize itso long as we seize it together.(Applause.)For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.(Applause.)We believe that America’s prosperitymust rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work。when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has th