【正文】 must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible mitments we make to each other – through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security – these things do not sap our initiative。that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges。that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of 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 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?，F(xiàn)在讓我們相互擁抱，懷著莊嚴的職責(zé)和無比的快樂，這是我們永恒的與生俱來的權(quán)利。我的誓詞與我們所有的人向我們頭頂飄揚的、讓我們心懷自豪的國旗所表達的誓言沒有多大差別。我們必須行動，意識到今天的勝利是并不完全的。進步不會終止幾個世紀以來一直糾結(jié)的關(guān)于政府角色的爭論，但這要求我們現(xiàn)在就采取行動。我們的征途不會結(jié)束，直到我們所有的兒童，從底特律的街道到阿巴拉契亞的山嶺，再到康涅狄格州紐鎮(zhèn)安靜的小巷，直到他們得到關(guān)心和珍視，永遠避免受到傷害。如果我們真正是生而平等的，那么我們對彼此的愛也應(yīng)該是平等的。馬丁路德金說，我們個人的自由與地球上每個靈魂的自由不可分割。我們，人民，今天昭示的最明白的事實是——我們所有人都是生而平等的，這是依然引領(lǐng)我們的恒星。美國將在全球保持強大的聯(lián)盟，我們將更新這些能擴展我們應(yīng)對海外危機能力的機制。明白他們的犧牲將讓我們永遠對那些試圖傷害我們的勢力保持警惕。這將給我們的建國之父們曾宣布的信條賦予意義。但美國不能抵制這種趨勢，我們必須引領(lǐng)這種趨勢。我們，人民，仍然相信，我們作為美國人的義務(wù)不只是對我們自己而言，還包括對子孫后代。我們相信，在這個國家，自由不只是那些幸運兒的專屬，或者說幸福只屬于少數(shù)人。我們，人民，仍然認為，每個公民都應(yīng)當(dāng)獲得基本的安全和尊嚴。我們必須應(yīng)用新理念和新技術(shù)重塑我們的政府，改進我們的稅法，改革我們的學(xué)校，讓我們的公民擁有他們所需要的技能，更加努力地工作，學(xué)更多的知識，向更高處發(fā)展。我們忠誠于我們的事業(yè)，保證讓一個出生于最貧窮環(huán)境中的小女孩都能知道，她有同其他所有人一樣的成功機會。因為我們，美國人民，清楚如果只有不斷萎縮的少數(shù)人群體獲得成功，而大多數(shù)人不能成功，我們的國家就無法成功。這一代美國人經(jīng)歷了危機的考驗，經(jīng)濟危機堅定了我們的決心，證明了我們的恢復(fù)力。一個人無法培訓(xùn)所有的數(shù)學(xué)與科學(xué)老師，我們需要他們?yōu)榱宋磥砣ソ逃⒆觽?。我們也理解，時代在變化，我們同樣需要變革。我們共同決定讓這個偉大的國家遠離危險，保護她的人民不受生命威脅和不幸的侵擾。我們共同努力，建立起現(xiàn)代的經(jīng)濟體系。他們委托每一代美國人捍衛(wèi)我們的建國信條。因為歷史告訴我們，即便這些真理是不言而喻的，它們也從來不會自動生效。讓我們與眾不同，讓我們成為美國人的是我們對于一種理念的恪守。拜登副總統(tǒng)、首席大法官先生、國會議員們、尊敬的各位嘉賓、親愛的公民們。奧巴馬在演講中追溯美國民主傳統(tǒng)和憲法精神，通過闡述就業(yè)、醫(yī)保、移民、財政、同性戀及氣候變化威脅等多項議題與現(xiàn)實有力契合。奧巴馬強調(diào)，偉大國家的塑造必須依賴每個美國人的力量，而非少數(shù)人的成功，并強調(diào)國家團結(jié)的重要性。每一次我們集會慶?？偨y(tǒng)就職都是在見證美國憲法的持久力量。200多年前，這一理念在一篇宣言中被清晰闡述：“我們認為下述真理是不言而喻的，人人生而平等。因為雖然自由是上帝賦予的禮物，但仍需要世間的子民去捍衛(wèi)。在過去的200多年里，我們做到了。架設(shè)鐵路與高速公路，加速了旅行和商業(yè)交流。一路走來，我們從未放棄對集權(quán)的質(zhì)疑。對建國精神的忠誠，需要我們肩負起新的責(zé)任，迎接新的挑戰(zhàn)。一個人無法建設(shè)道路、鋪設(shè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)、建立實驗室來為國內(nèi)帶來新的工作崗位和商業(yè)機會。長達十年的戰(zhàn)爭正在結(jié)束，經(jīng)濟的復(fù)蘇已經(jīng)開始。我們相信，美國的繁榮必須建立在不斷上升的中產(chǎn)階級的寬闊臂膀之上，我們知道美國的繁榮只有這樣才能實現(xiàn)。因為她是一個美國人，她是自由的、平等的。這意味著變革，我們的目標是：國家可以獎勵每個美國人的努力和果斷。我們必須做出艱難抉擇，降低醫(yī)療成本，縮減赤字規(guī)模。我們知道，不管我們怎樣負責(zé)任地生活，我們?nèi)魏稳嗽谌魏螘r候都可能面臨失業(yè)、突發(fā)疾病或住房被可怕的颶風(fēng)摧毀的風(fēng)險。我們將應(yīng)對氣候變化的威脅，認識到不采取措施應(yīng)對氣候變化就是對我們的孩子和后代的背叛。我們不能把制造新就業(yè)機會和新行業(yè)的技術(shù)讓給其他國家，我們必須明確這一承諾。我們，人民，仍然相信持久的安全與和平，不需要持續(xù)的戰(zhàn)爭。但我們也是那些贏得和平而不只是戰(zhàn)爭的人們的后代，他們將仇敵轉(zhuǎn)變成最可靠的朋友，我們也必須把這些經(jīng)驗帶到這個時代。因為作為世界上最強大的國家，我們在世界和平方面擁有最大的利益。它引領(lǐng)我們的先輩穿越紐約塞尼卡瀑布城(女權(quán)抗議事件)、塞爾馬(黑人權(quán)力事件)和石墻騷亂(同性戀與警察發(fā)生的暴力事件)，引領(lǐng)著所有的男性和女性，留下姓名和沒留姓名的人。繼續(xù)先輩開創(chuàng)的事業(yè)是我們這代人的任務(wù)。我們的征途沒有結(jié)束，直到?jīng)]有公民需要等待數(shù)個小時去行使投票權(quán)。那是我們這一代的任務(wù)——讓生存、自由和追求幸福的言語、權(quán)力和價值切實體現(xiàn)在每個美國人的身上。目前是由我們決策，我們不能拖延。這些將有賴于未來4年、40年或是400年致力于這項事業(yè)的人，去推進當(dāng)年在費城制憲會議大廳傳承給我們的永恒精神。這些是公民的誓詞，代表著我們最偉大的希望。有共同的努力和共同的目標，用熱情與奉獻，讓我們回應(yīng)歷史的召喚，將珍貴的自由之光帶入并不確定的未來。schools and colleges to train our workers。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 science 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 generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our decade of war is now economic recovery has ’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive。they strengthen do not make us a nation of takers。ve about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe。just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall。it does not mean we will all define 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 now decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat namecalling as reasoned 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 forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare 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 faction – and we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our the words I spoke today 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 the flag 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, ha