【正文】 ch the rivers flow to the world beholds the peaceful triumphs of the industry of our us belongs the duty of protecting them adequately wherever they may be upon our jurisdiction of our laws and the benefits of our republican institutions should be extended over them in the distant regions which they have selected for their increasing facilities of intercourse will easily bring the States, of which the formation in that part of our territory can not be long delayed, within the sphere of our federative the meantime every obligation imposed by treaty or conventional stipulations should be sacredly the management of our foreign relations it will be my aim to observe a careful respect for the rights of other nations, while our own will be the subject of constant and exact justice should characterize all our intercourse with foreign alliances having a tendency to jeopard the welfare and honor of our country or sacrifice any one of the national interests will be studiously avoided, and yet no opportunity will be lost to cultivate a favorable understanding with foreign governments by which our navigation and merce may be extended and the ample products of our fertile soil, as well as the manufactures of our skillful artisans, find a ready market and remunerating prices in foreign taking “care that the laws be faithfully executed,” a strict performance of duty will be exacted from all public those officers, especially, who are charged with the collection and disbursement of the public revenue will prompt and rigid accountability be culpable failure or delay on their part to account for the moneys intrusted to them at the times and in the manner required by law will in every instance terminate the official connection of such defaulting officer with the in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United he executes the laws with an impartial hand, shrinks from no proper responsibility, and faithfully carries out in the executive department of the Government the principles and policy of those who have chosen him, he should not be unmindful that our fellowcitizens who have differed with him in opinion are entitled to the full and free exercise of their opinions and judgments, and that the rights of all are entitled to respect and relying upon the aid and assistance of the coordinate departments of the Government in conducting our public affairs, I enter upon the discharge of the high duties which have been assigned me by the people, again humbly supplicating that Divine Being who has watched over and protected our beloved country from its infancy 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(guó)歷屆總統(tǒng)就職演說(shuō)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