【正文】 war, , don’t issue us BB guns.”These ten days confirmed my belief in the decency and the strength and the wisdom of the American people, but it also bore out some of my longstanding concerns about our nation’s underlying know, of course, being President, that government actions and legislation can be very ’s why I’ve worked hard to put my campaign promises into law, and I have to admit, with just mixed after listening to the American people, I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with , I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American do not mean our political and civil will I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military threat is nearly invisible in ordinary is a crisis of is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of is the idea which founded our nation and has guided our development as a in the future has supported everything elsepublic institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United has defined our course and has served as a link between ’ve always believed in something called ’ve always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our a people we know our past and we are proud of progress has been part of the living history of America, even the always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom。and that belief has always strengthened us in our just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, closeknit munities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship selfindulgence and identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for ’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five of our people do not even productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a changes did not happen ’ve e upon us gradually over the last generation, years that were filled with shocks and tragedy.[NextPage] We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of respected the Presidency as a place of honor until the shock of remember when the phrase “sound as a dollar” was an expression of absolute dependability, until ten years of inflation began to shrink our dollar and our believed that our nation’s resources were limitless until 1973 when we had to face a growing dependence on foreign wounds are still very have never been for a way out of this crisis, our people have turned to the Federal Government and found it isolated from the mainstream of our nation’s , ., has bee an gap between our citizens and our government has never been so people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers。clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as you see too often in Washington and elsewhere around the country is a system of government that seems incapable of see a Congress twisted and pulled in every direction by hundreds of wellfinanced and powerful special see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or often see a balanced and a fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without you see paralysis and stagnation and don’t like it, and neither do can we do? First of all, we must face the truth, and then we can change our simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we is a true challenge of this generation of of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: “We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start strength we need will not e from the White House, but from every house in America.”We know the strength of are can regain our can regain our are the heirs of generations who survived threats much more powerful and awesome than those that challenge us fathers and mothers were strong men and women who shaped a new society during the Great Depression, who fought world wars and who carved out a new charter of peace for the ourselves are the same Americans who just ten years ago put a man on the are the generation that dedicated our society to the pursuit of human rights and we are the generation t