【正文】 ce with all the world。if, while the conscious honor and integrity of the people of America and the internal sentiment of their own power and energies must be preserved, an earnest endeavor to investigate every just cause and remove every colorable pretense of plaint。if an inflexible determination to maintain peace and inviolable faith with all nations, and that system of neutrality and impartiality among the belligerent powers of Europe which has been adopted by this Government and so solemnly sanctioned by both Houses of Congress and applauded by the legislatures of the States and the public opinion, until it shall be otherwise ordained by Congress。if an inclination to improve agriculture, merce, and manufacturers for necessity, convenience, and defense。if a love of science and letters and a wish to patronize every rational effort to encourage schools, colleges, universities, academies, and every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all classes of the people, not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes, and of society in all its forms, but as the only means of preserving our Constitution from its natural enemies, the spirit of sophistry, the spirit of party, the spirit of intrigue, the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments。if an equal and impartial regard to the rights, interest, honor, and happiness of all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various political opinions on unessential points or their personal attachments。if an attachment to the Constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it until it shall be altered by the judgments and wishes of the people, expressed in the mode prescribed in it。s example has been remended to the imitation of his successors by both Houses of Congress and by the voice of the legislatures and the people throughout the this subject it might bee me better to be silent or to speak with diffidence。亞當(dāng)斯總統(tǒng)就職演說(shuō)美國(guó)歷屆總統(tǒng)就職演講辭Inaugural Address of John AdamsINAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIASATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1797When it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for America remained between unlimited submission to a foreign legislature and a total independence of its claims, men of reflection were less apprehensive of danger from the formidable power of fleets and armies they must determine to resist than from those contests and dissensions which would certainly arise concerning the forms of government to be instituted over the whole and over the parts of this extensive , however, on the purity of their intentions, the justice of their cause, and the integrity and intelligence of the people, under an overruling Providence which had so signally protected this country from the first, the representatives of this nation, then consisting of little more than half its present number, not only broke to pieces the chains which were forging and the rod of iron that was lifted up, but frankly cut asunder the ties which had bound them, and launched into an ocean of zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolutionary war, supplying the place of government, manded a degree of order sufficient at least for the temporary preservation of Confederation which was early felt to be necessary was prepared from the models of the Batavian and Helvetic confederacies, the only examples which remain with any detail and precision in history, and certainly the only ones which the people at large had ever reflecting on the striking difference in so many particulars between this country and those where a courier may go from the seat of government to the frontier in a single day, it was then certainly foreseen by some who assisted in Congress at the formation of it that it could not be of its regulations, inattention to its remendations, if not disobedience to its authority, not only in individuals but in States, soon appeared with their melancholy consequencesuniversal languor, jealousies and rivalries of States, decline of navigation and merce, discouragement of necessary manufactures, universal fall in the value of lands and their produce, contempt of public and private faith, loss of consideration and credit with foreign nations, and at length in discontents, animosities, binations, partial conventions, and insurrection, threatening some great national this dangerous crisis the people of America were not abandoned by their usual good sense, presence of mind, resolution, or were pursued to concert a plan to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the mon defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of public disquisitions, discussions, and deliberations issued in the present happy Constitution of in the service of my country abroad during the whole course of these transactions, I first saw the Constitution of the United States in a foreign by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or its general principles and great outlines it was conformable to such a system of government as I had ever most esteemed, and in some States, my own native State in particular, had contributed to a right of suffrage, in mon with my fellowcitizens, in the adoption or rejection of a constitution which was to rule me and myposterity, as well as them and theirs, I did not hesitate to express my approbation of it on all occasions, in public and in was not then, nor has been since, any objection to it in my mind that the Executive and Senate were not more have I