【正文】 s best is not good enough for tomorrow.
　　I am not satisfied with the progress thus far made. The men in charge of the program represent the best in training, in ability, and in patriotism. They are not satisfied with the progress thus far made. None of us will be satisfied until the job is done.
　　No matter whether the original goal was set too high or too low, our objective is quicker and better results.
　　To give you two illustrations:
　　We are behind schedule in turning out finished airplanes. We are working day and night to solve the innumerable problems and to catch up.
　　We are ahead of schedule in building warships, but we are working to get even further ahead of that schedule.
　　To change a whole nation from a basis of peacetime production of implements of peace to a basis of wartime production of implements of war is no small task. And the greatest difficulty es at the beginning of the program, wh。 in other cases there are slight but not serious delays. And in some cases and, I am sorry to say, very important cases we are all concerned by the slowness of the acplishment of our plans.
　　The Army and Navy, however, have made substantial progress during the past year. Actual experience is improving and speeding up our methods of production with every passing day. And todayamp。39。quot。quot。s peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of expression, or freedom of religion or even good business. Such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
　　As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted。 I find it unhappily necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders.
　　Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantly waged in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe and Asia, and Africa and AustralAsia will be dominated by conquerors. And let us remember that the total of those populations in those four continents, the total of those populations and their resources greatly exceed the sum total of the population and the resources of the whole of the Western Hemisphere yes, many times over.
　　In times like these it is immature and, incidentally, untrue for anybody to brag that an unprepared America, singlehanded and with one hand tied behind its back, can hold off the whole world.
　　No realistic American can expect from a dictatoramp。give to the Congress information of the state of the union,amp。 it is still a friendly strength.
　　Even when the World War broke out in 1914, it seemed to contain only small threat of danger to our own American future. But as time went on, as we remember, the American people began to visualize what the downfall of democratic nations might mean to our own democracy.
　　We need not overemphasize imperfections in the peace of Versailles. We need not harp on failure of the democracies to deal with problems of world reconstruction. We should remember that the peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of pacification which began even before Munich, and which is being carried on under the new order of tyranny that seeks to spread over every continent today. The American people have unalterably set their faces against that tyranny.
　　I suppose that every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world assailed either by arms or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace. During 16 long months this assault has blotted out the whole pattern of democratic life in an appalling number of independent nations, great and small. And the assailants are still on the march, threatening other nations, great and small.
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　　This is not a distant threat. It is a present danger. The rate of infection is increasing fastest among women and children. Largely unknown a decade ago, AIDS is the third leading killer of young adult Americans today. But it wonamp。 it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old.
　　Tonight, I represent an AIDS munity whose members have been reluctantly drafted from every segment of American society. Though I am white and a mother, I am one with a black infant struggling with tubes in a Philadelphia hospital. Though I am female and contracted this disease in marriage and enjoy the warm support of my family, I am one with the lonely gay man sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of his familyamp。re talking about and this is a matter which concerns this country and what it stands for, and in meeting it I ask the support of all our citizens.
　　Thank you very much.
英語經(jīng)典演講二：A Whisper of AIDS　　Less than three months ago at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV and AIDS. I have e tonight to bring our silence to an end. I bear a message of challenge, not selfcongratulation. I want your attention, not your applause.
　　I would never have asked to be HIV positive, but I believe that in all things there is a purpose。ve said before, not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability