【正文】 s eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our our challenges are fearsome, so are our Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before our revolution, the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to , my fellow citizens, this is our us embrace democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with so today, we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift。a new season of American renewal has renew America, we must be must do what no generation has had to do must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, in their future, and at the same time cut our massive we must do so in a world in which we must pete for every will not be easy。it will require it can be done, and done fairly, not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for our own must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its Founders saw themselves in the light of can do no who has ever watched a child39。s eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is the world to e。the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or from each us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our munities and our renew America, we must revitalize our beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our deserve better, and in this city today, there are people who want to do so I say to all of us here, let us resolve to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down the voice of the us put aside personal advantage so that we can feel the pain and see the promise of us resolve to make our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called “bold, persistentexperimentation,” a government for our tomorrows, not our us give this capital back to the people to whom it renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well at is no longer division between what is foreign and what is domestic。the world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race。they affect us , as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less 39。s collapse has called forth old animosities and new America must continue to lead the world we did so much to America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize the opportunities, of this new with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international munity is defied, we will act。with peaceful diplomacy when ever possible, with force when brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else they stand are testament to our our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many the world, we see them embraced, and we hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent who are building democracy and cause is America39。s American people have summoned the change we celebrate have raised your voices in an unmistakable have cast your votes in historic you have changed the face of Congress, the presidency and the political process , you, my fellow Americans have forced the , we must do the work the season that work I now turn, with all the authority of my ask the Congress to join with no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service。to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping pany with those in need, reconnecting our torn is so much to be done。enough indeed for millions of others who are still young in spirit to give of themselves in service, serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth, we need each we must care for one , we do more than celebrate America。we rededicate ourselves to the very idea of idea born in revolution and renewed through two centuries of idea tempered by the knowledge that, but for fate we, the fortunate and the unfortunate, might have been each idea ennobled by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad diversity the deepest measure of idea infused with the conviction that America39。s long heroic journey must go forever so, my fellow Americans, at the edge of the 21st century, let us begin with energy and hope, with faith and discipline, and let us work until our work is scripture says, “And let us not be weary in welldoing, for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not.”From this joyful mountaintop of celebration, we hear a call to service in the have heard the have changed the now, each in our way, and with God39。s help, we must answer the you, and God bless you 比爾?克林頓 第一次就職演講星期三,1993年1月20日同胞們：今天，我們慶祝美國復(fù)興的奇跡。這個(gè)儀式雖在隆冬舉行，然而，我們通過自己的言語和向世界展示的面容、卻促使春回大地回到了世界上這個(gè)最古老的民主國家，并帶來了重新創(chuàng)造美國的遠(yuǎn)見和勇氣。當(dāng)我國的締造者勇敢地向世界宣布美國獨(dú)立，并向上帝表明自 己的目的時(shí)，他們知道，美國若要永存，就必須變革。不是為變革而變革，而是為了維護(hù)美國的理想為了生命、自由和追求幸福而變革。盡管我們隨著當(dāng)今時(shí)代 的節(jié)拍前進(jìn)，但我們的使命永恒不變。每一代美國人，部必須為作為一個(gè)美國人意味著什么下定義。今天，在冷戰(zhàn)陰影下成長起來的一代人，在世界上負(fù)起了新的責(zé) 任。這個(gè)世界雖然沐浴著自由的陽光，但仍受到舊仇宿怨和新的禍患的威脅。我們?cè)跓o與倫比的繁榮中長大，繼承了仍然是世界上最強(qiáng)大的經(jīng)濟(jì)。但由于企業(yè)倒閉，工資增長停滯、不平等狀況加劇，人民的分歧加深，我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)已經(jīng)削弱。當(dāng)喬治?華盛頓第一次宣讀我剛才宜讀的誓言時(shí)，人們騎馬把 那個(gè)信息緩慢地傳遍大地，繼而又來船把