【正文】 am of are not this story39。citizens, not subjects。to defend needed reforms against easy attacks。s touch or a pastor39。s schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from struggles we have the power to we will reduce taxes, to recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors will defend our allies and our will show purpose without will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation , at its best, is the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation39。s faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to many of our citizens prosper, others doubt the promise, even the justice, of our own ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent, but not a do not accept this, and we will not allow unity, our union, is the serious work of leaders and citizens in every this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His we are confident in principles that unite and lead us has never been united by blood or birth or are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be child must be taught these citizen must uphold every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, , we affirm a new mitment to live out our nation39。第一篇：[精品文摘]美國(guó)總統(tǒng)小布什的就職演說(shuō)[精品文摘]美國(guó)總統(tǒng)小布什的就職演說(shuō)Thank you!Chief Justice Rehnquist, President Carter, President Bush, President Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet mon in our a simple oath, we affirm old traditionsand make new I begin, I thank President Clinton for his service to our I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of 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 that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to is the American storya story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our though our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must follow no other much of the last century, America39。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 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 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 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 an