【正文】 aiting for hands to do a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the find that answer, we need only look within we listen to “the better angels of our nature,” we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic thingssuch as goodness, decency, love, es in simple simple things are the ones most needed today if we are to surmount what divides us, and cement what unites lower our voices would be a simple these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words。s believe in can be proud that they are better educated, more mitted, more passionately driven by conscience than any generation in our people has ever been so close to the achievement of a just and abundant society, or so possessed of the will to achieve our strengths are so great, we can afford to appraise our weaknesses with candor and to approach them with in this same place a third of a century ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a Nation ravaged by depression and gripped in could say in surveying the Nation39。第一篇：7美國(guó)總統(tǒng)尼克松就職演說(shuō)(1969年)1969年美國(guó)總統(tǒng)尼克松就職演說(shuō)First Inaugural Address of Richard Milhous NixonMONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1969Senator Dirksen, Justice, President, President Johnson, Vice President Humphrey, my fellow Americansand my fellow citizens of the world munity:I ask you to share with me today the majesty of this the orderly transfer of power, we celebrate the unity that keeps us moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or can be such a now are converging that make possible, for the first time, the hope that many of man39。s deepest aspirations can at last be spiraling pace of change allows us to contemplate, within our own lifetime, advances that once would have taken throwing wide the horizons of space, we have discovered new horizons on the first time, because the people of the world want peace, and the leaders of the world are afraid of war, the times are on the side of years from now America will celebrate its 200th anniversary as a the lifetime of most people now living, mankind will celebrate that great new year which es only once in a thousand yearsthe beginning of the third kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our greatest honor history can bestow is the title of honor now beckons Americathe chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil, and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of we succeed, generations to e will say of us now living that we mastered our moment, that we helped make the world safe for is our summons to believe the American people are ready to answer this second third of this century has been a time of proud have made enormous strides in science and industry and have shared our wealth more broadly than have learned at last to manage a modern economy to assure its continued have given freedom new reach, and we have begun to make its promise real for black as well as for see the hope of tomorrow in the youth of know America39。s troubles: “They concern, thank God, only material things.”O(jiān)ur crisis today is the have found ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit。from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver。from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one anotheruntil we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our its part, government will will strive to listen in new waysto the voices of quiet anguish, the voices that speak without words, the voices of the heartto the injured voices, the anxious voices, the voices that have despaired of being who have been left out, we will try to bring left behind, we will help to catch all of our people, we will set as our goal the decent order that makes progress possible and our lives we reach toward our hopes, our task is to build on what has gone beforenot turning away from the old, but turning toward the this past third of a century, government has passed more laws, spent more money, initiated more programs, than in all our previous pursuing our goals of full employment, better housing, excellence in education。in protecting our environment and enhancing the quality of lifein all these and more, we will and must press urgently shall plan now for the day when our wealth can be transferred from the destruction of war abroad to the urgent needs of our people at American dream does not e to those who fall we are approaching the limits of what government alone can greatest need now is to reach beyond government, and to enlist the legions of the concerned and the has to be done, has to be done by government and people together or it will not be done at lesson of past agony is that without the people we can do nothing。we achieve nobility in the spirit that inspires that we measure what can be done, we shall promise only what we know we can produce, but as we chart our goals we shall be lifted by our man can be fully free while his neighbor is go forward at all is to go forward means black and white together, as one nation, not laws have caught up with our remains is to give life to what is in the law: to ensure at last that as all are born equal in dignity before God, all are born equal in dignity before we learn to go forward together at home, let us also seek to go forward together with all us take as our goal: where peace is unknown, make it wele。where peace is temporary, make it a period of confrontation, we are entering an era of all nations know that during this administration our lines of munication will be seek an open worldopen to ideas, open to the exchange of goods and peoplea world in which no people, great or small, will live in angry cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make