【正文】 ancy to the present hour to continue His gracious benedictions upon us, that we may continue to be a prosperous and happy people.第二篇：美國歷屆總統(tǒng)就職演說詞( Calvin Coolidge)Inaugural Address of Calvin CoolidgeWEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1925My Countrymen: No one can contemplate current conditions without finding much that is satisfying and still more that is own country is leading the world in the general readjustment to the results of the great of its burdens will bear heavily upon us for years, and the secondary and indirect effects we must expect to experience for some we are beginning to prehend more definitely what course should be pursued, what remedies ought to be applied, what actions should be taken for our deliverance, and are clearly manifesting a determined will faithfully and conscientiously to adopt these methods of we have sufficiently rearranged our domestic affairs so that confidence has returned, business has revived, and we appear to be entering an era of prosperity which is gradually reaching into every part of the that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all results have not occurred by mere have been secured by a constant and enlightened effort marked by many sacrifices and extending over many can not continue these brilliant successes in the future, unless we continue to learn from the is necessary to keep the former experiences of our country both at home and abroad continually before us, if we are to have any science of we wish to erect new structures, we must have a definite knowledge of the old must realize that human nature is about the most constant thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not must frequently take our bearings from these fixed stars of our political firmament if we expect to hold a true we examine carefully what we have done, we can determine the more accurately what we can stand at the opening of the one hundred and fiftieth year since our national consciousness first asserted itself by unmistakable action with an array of old sentiment of detached and dependent colonies disappeared in the new sentiment of a united and independent began to discard the narrow confines of a local charter for the broader opportunities of a national the eternal urge of freedom we became an independent little less than 50 years later that freedom and independence were reasserted in the face of all the world, and guarded, supported, and secured by the Monroe narrow fringe of States along the Atlantic seaboard advanced its frontiers across the hills and plains of an intervening continent until it passed down the golden slope to the made freedom a extended our domain over distant islands in order to safeguard our own interests and accepted the consequent obligation to bestow justice and liberty upon less favored the defense of our own ideals and in the general cause of liberty we entered the Great victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unre。of every art, trade, and occupation consistent with the laws of the we rejoice in the general happiness, prosperity, and advancement of our country, which have been the offspring of freedom, and not of most admirable and wisest system of wellregulated selfgovernment among men ever devised by human minds has been tested by its successful operation for more than half a century, and if preserved from the usurpations of the Federal Government on the one hand and the exercise by the States of powers not reserved to them on the other, will, I fervently hope and believe, endure for ages to e and dispense the blessings of civil and religious liberty to distant effect objects so dear to every patriot I shall devote myself with anxious will be my desire to guard against that most fruitful source of danger to the harmonious action of our system which consists in substituting the mere discretion and caprice of the Executive or of majorities in the legislative department of the Government for powers which have been withheld from the Federal Government by the the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such the blessings of liberty which our Constitution secures may be enjoyed alike by minorities and majorities, the Executive has been wisely invested with a qualified veto upon the acts of the is a negative power, and is conservative in its arrests for the time hasty, inconsiderate, or unConstitutional legislation, invites reconsideration, and transfers questions at issue between the legislative and executive departments to the tribunal of the all other powers, it is subject to be judiciously and properly exercised, the Constitution itself may be saved from infraction and the rights of all preserved and inestimable value of our Federal Union is felt and acknowledged by this system of united and confederated States our people are permitted collectively and individually to seek their own happiness in their own way, and the consequences have been most the Union was formed the number of the States has increased from thirteen to twentyeight。s peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human assuming responsibilities so vast I fervently invoke the aid of that Almighty Ruler of the Universe in whose hands are the destinies of nations and of men to guard this Heavenfavored land against the mischiefs which without His guidance might arise from an unwise public a firm reliance upon the w