【正文】 gel still rides in the whirl wind and directs this bless you all, and God bless ：第三篇：布什就職演說（英文版）Chief Justice Rehnquist, president Carter, president Bush, presidentClinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peacefultransfer of authority is rare in history, yet mon in our a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new I begin, I thank president Clinton for his service to our I thank Vice president Gore for a contest conducted with spirit andended with am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America39。responsible citizens, building munities of service and a nation of are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: “We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?” Much time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his years and changes the themes of this day he would know: our nation39。to serve your nation, beginning with your ask you to be citizens:citizens, not spectators。s and charity, synagogue and mosque lend our munities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and in our in our country do not know the pain of poverty, but we can listen to those who I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other , at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper find the fullness of life not only in options, but in we find that children and munity are the mitments that set us public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our in life we are called to do great as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great most important tasks of a democracy are done by will live and lead by these principles: to advance my convictions with civility, to pursue the public interest with courage, to speak for greater justice and passion, to call for responsibility and try to live it as all these ways, I will bring the values of our history to the care of our you do is as important as anything government ask you to seek a mon good beyond your fort。s whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of the proliferation of prisons, however necessary, is no substitute for hope and order in our there is suffering, there is in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but all of us are diminished when any are has great responsibilities for public safety and public health, for civil rights and mon passion is the work of a nation, not just a some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor39。s promise through civility, courage, passion and , at its best, matches a mitment to principle with a concern for civil society demands from each of us good will and respect, fair dealing and seem to believe that our politics can afford to be petty because, in a time of peace, the stakes of our debates appear the stakes for America are never our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be we do not turn the hearts of children toward knowledge and character, we will lose their gifts and undermine their we permit our economy to drift and decline, the vulnerable will suffer must live up to the calling we is not a tactic or a sentime is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of munity over this mitment, if we keep it, is a way to shared , at its best, is also national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defending mon dangers defined our mon we must choose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future , we will reclaim America39。s leaders have e before me, and so many will have a place, all of us, in a long storya story we continue, but whose end we will not is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slaveholding society tha