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My fellow Americans, a tree takes a long time to grow, and wounds take a long time to we must who are lost now belong to day we will be with until that happens, their legacy must be our you all, and God bless you.第五篇:美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇The_Marshall_Plan美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇:“The Marshall Plan”George The Marshall Plan[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.], , members of the Board of Overseers, Ladies and Gentlemen:I am profoundly grateful, touched by the great distinction and honor and great pliment accorded me by the authorities of Harvard this am overwhelmed, as a matter of fact, and I am rather fearful of my inability to maintain such a high rating as you39。s words seem small beside the loss you have I found a few I wanted to share 39。ve been here about certain demonstrations against my I would like to say just one thing, and to those who demonstrate wonder if they have ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of government they apparently seek, no one would ever be able to do what they39。s something deeper, something that involves Berlin39。m certain, will do the it39。and the Soviets later walked away from the through it all, the alliance held I invite those who protested thenI invite those who protest todayto mark this fact: Because we remained strong, the Soviets came back to the we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility, not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the I speak, NATO ministers are meeting in Iceland to review the progress of our proposals for eliminating these the talks in Geneva, we have also proposed deep cuts in strategic offensive the Western allies have likewise made farreaching proposals to reduce the danger of conventional war and to place a total ban on chemical we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiativeresearch to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend。]In the 1950sIn the 1950s Khrushchev predicted: “We will bury you.”But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and wellbeing unprecedented in all human the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kindtoo little today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with ity and is the nownow the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be ing to understand the importance of hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and political prisoners have been foreign news broadcasts are no longer being economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We wele change and openness。s culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and there was want, today there39。here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German separated from his fellow man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a Von Weizs228。s our duty to speak in this place of I must confess, we’re drawn here by other things as well。 to do what is right as God gives me to see the right。s urgent cannot stand still or slip must go forward now the peoples and the governments of all friendly nations, and I hope that could enpass the whole world, I pledge an uninterrupted and sincere search for will remain strong and united, but its strength will remain dedicated to the safety and sanity of the entire family of man, as well as to our own precious believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization bond, though stained, is unbroken at home and all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is Constitution great Republic is a government of laws and not of , the people there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of the beginning, I asked you to pray for closing, I ask again your prayers, for Richard Nixon and for his our former President, who brought peace to millions, find it for God bless and fort his wonderful wife and daughters, whose love and loyalty will forever be a shining legacy to all who bear the lonely burdens of the White can only guess at those burdens, although I have witnessed at close hand the tragedies that befell three Presidents and the lesser trials of all the strength and all the good sense I have gained from life, with all the confidence of my family, my friends, and my dedicated staff impart to me, and with the good will of countless Americans I have encountered in recent visits to 40 States, I now solemnly reaffirm my promise I made to you last December 6: To uphold the Constitution。to do what is r