【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 by much is changing and will change, but so much endures, and transcends is a ribbon, always unfurling。history is a as we continue our journey, we think of those who traveled before stand together again at the steps of this symbol of our democracyor we would have been standing at the steps if it hadn39。t gotten so we are standing inside this symbol of our we hear again the echoes of our past: a general falls to his knees in the hard snow of Valley Forge。a lonely President paces the darkened halls, and ponders his struggle to preserve the Union。the men of the Alamo call out encouragement to each other。a settler pushes west and sings a song, and the song echoes out forever and fills the unknowing is the American is hopeful, bighearted, idealistic, daring, decent, and 39。s our heritage。that is our sing it all our problems, our differences, we are together as of old, as we raise our voices to the God who is the Author of this most tender may He continue to hold us close as we fill the world with our soundsound in unity, affection, and loveone people under God, dedicated to the dream of freedom that He has placed in the human heart, called upon now to pass that dream on to a waiting and hopeful bless you and may God bless America.第二篇：1981年里根第一任總統(tǒng)就職演說(shuō)english version里根第一任總統(tǒng)就職演說(shuō) 羅納德里根 第一次就職演說(shuō) 第40任總統(tǒng)(1981年1989年)英文First Inaugural Address of Ronald ReaganTUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1981Senator Hatfield, Justice, , Vice President Bush, Vice President Mondale, Senator Baker, Speaker O39。Neill, Reverend Moomaw, and my fellow citizens: To a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion。and yet, in the history of our Nation, it is a monplace orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really the eyes of many in the world, this every4year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a , I want our fellow citizens to know how much you did to carry on this your gracious cooperation in the transition process, you have shown a watching world that we are a united people pledged to maintaining a political system which guarantees individual liberty to a greater degree than any other, and I thank you and your people for all your help in maintaining the continuity which is the bulwark of our business of our nation goes United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained inflations in our national distorts our economic decisions, penalizes thrift, and crushes the struggling young and the fixedine elderly threatens to shatter the lives of millions of our industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement andkeeps us from maintaining full great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children39。s future for the temporary convenience of the continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of , then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?We must act today in order to preserve let there be no misunderstandingwe are going tobegin to act, beginning economic ills we suffer have e upon us over several will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of this present crisis, government is not the solution to our time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has bee too plex to be managed by selfrule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the solutions we seek must be equitable, with noone group singled out to pay a higher hear much of special interest concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sickprofessionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck are, in short, “We the people,” this breed called , this administration39。s objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunity for all Americans, with no barriers born of bigotry or America back to work means putting all Americans back to inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living must share in the productive work of this “new beginning” and all must share in the bounty of a revived the idealism and fair play which are the core of our system and our strength, we can have a strong and prosperous America at peace with itself and the , as we begin, let us take are a nation that has a governmentnot the other way this makes us special among the nations of the Government has no power except that granted it by the is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grownbeyond the consent of the is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States。the States createdthe Fed