美国第30任总统 卡尔文·柯立芝就职演说
美国历届总统就职演说词(Jimmy Carter)

Inaugural Address of Jimmy CarterTHURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1977For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."Here before me is the Bible used in the inauguration of our first President, in 1789, and I have just taken the oath of office on the Bible my mother gave me a few years ago, opened to a timeless admonition from the ancient prophet Micah:"He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." (Micah 6: 8)This inauguration ceremony marks a new beginning, a new dedication within our Government, and a new spirit among us all. A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it.Two centuries ago our Nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of this Nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and of human liberty. It is that unique self- definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.You have given me a great responsibility--to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are. Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.The American dream endures. We must once again have full faith in our country--and in one another. I believe America can be better. We can be even stronger than before.Let our recent mistakes bring a resurgent commitment to the basic principles of our Nation, for we know that if we despise our own government we have no future. We recall in special times when we have stood briefly, but magnificently, united. In those times no prize was beyond our grasp.But we cannot dwell upon remembered glory. We cannot afford to drift. We reject the prospect of failure or mediocrity or an inferior quality of life for any person. Our Government must at the same time be both competent and compassionate.We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.We have learned that "more" is not necessarily "better," that even our great Nation has its recognized limits, and that we can neither answer all questions nor solve all problems. We cannot afford to do everything, nor can we afford to lack boldness as we meet the future. So, together, in a spirit of individual sacrifice for the common good, we must simply do our best.Our Nation can be strong abroad only if it is strong at home. And we know that the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.The world itself is now dominated by a new spirit. Peoples more numerous and more politically aware are craving and now demanding their place in the sun--not just for the benefit of their own physical condition, but for basic human rights.The passion for freedom is on the rise. Tapping this new spirit, there can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for America to undertake on this day of a new beginning than to help shape a just and peaceful world that is truly humane.We are a strong nation, and we will maintain strength so sufficient that it need not be proven in combat--a quiet strength based not merely on the size of an arsenal, but on the nobility of ideas.We will be ever vigilant and never vulnerable, and we will fight our wars against poverty, ignorance, and injustice--for those are the enemies against which our forces can be honorably marshaled.We are a purely idealistic Nation, but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.The world is still engaged in a massive armaments race designed to ensure continuing equivalent strength among potential adversaries. We pledge perseverance and wisdom in our efforts to limit the world's armaments to those necessary for each nation's own domestic safety. And we will move this year a step toward ultimate goal--the elimination of all nuclear weapons from this Earth. We urge all other people to join us, for success can mean life instead of death.Within us, the people of the United States, there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of confidence. And I join in the hope that when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our Nation:- that we had remembered the words of Micah and renewed our search for humility, mercy, and justice;- that we had torn down the barriers that separated those of different race and region and religion, and where there had been mistrust, built unity, with a respect for diversity;- that we had found productive work for those able to perform it;- that we had strengthened the American family, which is the basis of our society;- that we had ensured respect for the law, and equal treatment under the law, for the weak and the powerful, for the rich and the poor;- and that we had enabled our people to be proud of their own Government once again.I would hope that the nations of the world might say that we had builta lasting peace, built not on weapons of war but on international policies which reflect our own most precious values.These are not just my goals, and they will not be my accomplishments, but the affirmation of our Nation's continuing moral strength and our belief in an undiminished, ever-expanding American dream.。
柯立芝效应:彻底表达男女对性的态度

柯立芝效应:彻底表达男女对性的态度(看女人的三点)新鲜感对性欲有很大的影响,很多研究道出了“柯立芝效应”(Coolidge Effect)在人类性行为中的重要作用。
有个故事很出名,但可能只是杜撰。
美国总统卡尔文·柯立芝(第30任,1923~1928年,Calvin Coolidge)偕夫人参观某农场,到了农场之后,两人分头参观。
柯立芝夫人到了鸡舍,发现一只公鸡正在和一只母鸡交配,于是她问鸡舍管理员,一只公鸡是否能满足鸡舍里这么多只母鸡的需要。
“是的,”管理员说,“公鸡很努力,很尽责。
”柯立芝夫人又问,“真的?它每天都交配?”“是的,”管理员回答说,“实际上,他每天交配12次。
”“这可真有意思,”柯立芝夫人回答说,“请把这个告诉总统。
”没过多会儿,总统也来到鸡舍参观,管理员便将公鸡的事——总统夫人的话——告诉了他。
“公鸡每次都是跟同一只母鸡交配吗?”总统问。
“当然不是。
它每次都跟不同的母鸡交配。
”管理员回答说。
“那么也请把这个告诉总统夫人。
”柯立芝微笑着说。
大多数研究表明:尽管在两性关系初期,我们的大多数行为由性欲驱动,但是随着时间的推移,我们很难对同一个人一直保持旺盛的性欲。
对我们当中的很多人而言,一见钟情不算什么,白头偕老才是奇迹。
通常,两性关系刚开始时,一切都是新鲜的、刺激的,这个时候,男女双方都激情满满、性致勃勃地探索对方的身体。
但是征服期很快就结束了,继而进入平淡期。
讽刺的是,知道任何时候我们都可以做爱,意味着我们不能无所顾忌地做爱。
一个喜剧演员曾经说过:“当你的妻子说‘你只对一件事感兴趣’,而你不明白她所指何事时,这就说明你的婚姻出了问题。
”进化心理学看男女如何选择性伴侣欲望对于真正充实的生活而言,是很重要的。
欲望是决定我们成为什么样的人的关键要素。
尽管我们很多人不会把自我和欲望直接联系到一起,但是没有了欲望,我们的自我感就会发生很大的变化。
我们就是性的存在。
但是,影响人们选择伴侣的因素是什么?是什么让两个人互相吸引?吸引力到底是什么?通常,选择伴侣是需要信心的,有些执行官把它描述成他们所做过的最勇敢、最冒险、最不切实际的事情。
美国44任总统及其名言 [44P]
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第33任总统:哈里.S.杜鲁门(Harry S.Truman,1945-1953年任职)
其名言:
我从来没有给任何人说过鬼话----我只是说出了关于这些人的事实,而他们却把这种事实当作鬼话。
第26任总统:西奥多.罗斯福(Theodore Roosevelt,1901-1909年任职)
其名言:
没有人能像我一样享受当总统的乐趣。
一个从未上过学的人也许会偷一节运货车厢,但是,如果他受过大学教育,他有可能偷窃整个铁路。
第27任总统:威廉.霍华德.塔脱夫(William Howard Taft,1909-1913年任职)
其名言:
我可以是美国总统,但是我的私人生活别人无权过问。
人不免要死亡,但是,我们这个自由国家的制度是永世长存的,是绝对不会动摇的。
第22任、第24任总统:斯蒂芬.格洛佛.克利夫兰(Stephen Grover Cleveland,1885-1889、1893-1897年任职)
第34任总统:德怀特.戴维.艾森豪威尔(Dwight David Eisenhower,1953-1961年任职)
其名言:
从最终意义上来讲,我们所造的每一把枪、每一艘下水的军舰、每一支发射的火箭、都是从那些吃不饱的饥饿的人和那些穿不暖的受冻的人那里偷窃来的。
其名言:
总统无法让云下雨,无法让玉米生长,也无法让商业繁荣;尽管当这些事情发生后,政治党派会因为一些发生的好事而邀功。
第28任总统:托马斯.伍德罗.威尔逊(Thomas Woodrow Wilson,1913-1921年任职)
其名言:
只要以超人般的精力,以照看看起来像精神错乱且莫不关心的旁观者的精力来努力工作,我们就能获得任何有价值的成就。
历届美国总统就职演说中英双语

历届美国总统就职演说中英双语第一篇范文:美国历届总统就职演讲稿First Inaugural Address of George WashingtonTHE CITY OF NEW YORK__Y, APRIL 30, 1789Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years―a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought tobe peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated.Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than myown, nor those of my fellow- citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence. By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President “to recommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." The circumstances under which I now meet you will acquit me from entering into that subject further than to refer to the great constitutional charter under which you are assembled, and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with thosecircumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents,the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world. I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and courseof nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republicanmodel of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the fifth article of the Constitution is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the system, or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them. Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good; for I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.To the foregoing observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that Ishould renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed; and being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.Having thus imparted to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign Parentof the Human Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.Second Inaugural Address of George WashingtonTHE CITY OF __LPHIAMONDAY, MARCH 4, 1793Fellow Citizens:I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper for it shall arrive, I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence which has been reposed in me by the people of united America.Previous to the execution of any official act of the President the Constitution requires an oath of office. This oath I am now about to take, and in your presence: That if it shall be found during my administration of the Government I have in any instance violated willingly or knowingly the injunctions thereof, I may (besides incurring constitutional punishment) be subject to the upbraidings of all who are now witnesses of the present solemn ceremony.Inaugural Address of John Adams__AL __ IN THE CITY OF __LPHIA__Y, 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 country.Relying, 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 uncertainty.The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolutionary war, supplying the place of government, commanded a degree of order sufficient at least for the temporary preservation of society. The 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 considered. But 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 durable.Negligence of its regulations, inattention to its recommendations, if not disobedience to its authority, not only in individuals but in States, soon appeared with their melancholy consequences― universal languor, jealousies and rivalries of States, decline of navigation and commerce,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, combinations, partial conventions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity.In this dangerous crisis the people of America were not abandoned by their usual good sense, presence of mind, resolution, or integrity. Measures were pursued to concert a plan to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty. The public disquisitions, discussions, and deliberations issued in the present happy Constitution of Government.Employed 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 country. Irritated 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 countrythan any which had ever been proposed or suggested. In 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 ownnative State in particular, had contributed to establish. Claiming a right of suffrage, in common with my fellow-citizens, in the adoption or rejection of a constitution which was to rule me and my posterity, as well as them and theirs, I did not hesitate to express my approbation of it on all occasions, in public and in private. It was not then, nor has been since, any objection to it in my mind that the Executive and Senate were not more permanent. Nor have I ever entertained a thought of promoting any alteration in it but such as the people themselves, in the course of their experience, should see and feel to be necessary or expedient, and by their representatives in Congress and the State legislatures, according to the Constitution itself, adopt and ordain.Returning to the bosom of my country after a painful separation from it for ten years, I had the honor to be elected to a station under the new order of things, and I have repeatedly laid myself under the most serious obligations to support the Constitution. The operation of it has equaled the most sanguine expectations of its friends, and from an habitual attention to it, satisfaction in its administration, and delight in its effects upon the peace, order, prosperity, and happiness of the nation I have acquired an habitual attachment to it and veneration for it.What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?There may be little solidity in an ancient idea that congregations ofmen into cities and nations are the most pleasing objects in the sight of superior intelligences, but this is very certain, that to a benevolent human mind there can be no spectacle presented by any nation more pleasing, more noble, majestic, or august, than an assembly like that which has so often been seen in this and the other Chamber of Congress, of a Government in which the Executive authority, as well as that of all the branches of the Legislature, are exercised by citizens selected at regular periods by their neighbors to make and execute laws for the general good. Can anything essential, anything more than mere ornament and decoration, be added to this by robes and diamonds? Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people? For it is the people only that are represented. It is their power and majesty that is reflected, and only for their good, in every legitimate government, under whatever form it may appear. The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people. And what object or consideration more pleasing than this can be presented to the human mind? If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves; and candid men will acknowledge that in such cases choice would have little advantage to boast of over lot or chance. Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to independence and peace, to increasing wealth and unexampled prosperity, has merited the gratitude of his fellow-citizens, commanded the highest praises of foreign nations, andsecured immortal glory with posterity.In that retirement which is his voluntary choice may he long live to enjoy the delicious recollection of his services, the gratitude of mankind, the happy fruits of them to himself and the world, which are daily increasing, and that splendid prospect of the future fortunes of this country which is opening from year to year. His name may be still a rampart, and the knowledge that he lives a bulwark, against all open or secret enemies of his country's peace. This example has been recommended to the imitation of his successors by both Houses of Congress and by the voice of the legislatures and the people throughout the nation.On this subject it might become me better to be silent or to speak with diffidence; but as something may be expected, the occasion, I hope, will be admitted as an apology if I venture to say that if a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth; 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; if a respectful attention to the constitutions of the individual States and a constant caution and delicacy toward the State 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 a love of virtuous men of all parties and denominations; 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 a love of equal laws, of justice, and humanity in the interior administration; if an inclination to improve agriculture, commerce, and manufacturers for necessity, convenience, and defense; if a spirit of equity and humanity toward the aboriginal nations of America, and a disposition to meliorate their condition by inclining them to be more friendly to us, and our citizens to be more friendly to them; 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 publicopinion, until it shall be otherwise ordained by Congress; if a personal esteem for the French nation, formed in a residence of seven years chiefly among them, and a sincere desire to preserve the friendship which has been so much for the honor and interest of both nations; 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 complaint; if an intention to pursue by amicable negotiation a reparation for the injuries that have been committed on the commerce of our fellow-citizens by whatever nation, and if success can not be obtained, to lay the facts before the Legislature, that they may consider what further measures the honor and interest of the Government and its constituents demand; if a resolution to do justice as far as may depend upon me, at all times and to all nations, and maintain peace, friendship, and benevolence with all the world; if an unshaken confidence in the honor, spirit, and resources of the American people, on which I have so often hazarded my all and never been deceived; if elevated ideas of the high destinies of this country and of my own duties toward it, founded on a knowledge of the moral principles and intellectual improvements of the people deeply engraven on my mind in early life, and not obscured but exalted by experience and age; and, with humble reverence, I feel it to be my duty to add, if a veneration for the religion of a people who profess and callthemselves Christians, and a fixed resolution to consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for the public service, can enable me in any degree to comply with第二篇范文:美国历届总统就职演说华盛顿:First Inaugural Address of George WashingtonTHE CITY OF NEW YORK__Y, APRIL 30, 1789Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years--a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowmentsfrom nature and unpracticed in the duties of civiladministration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated.Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and privategood, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow- citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President "torecommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Thecircumstances under which I now meet you will acquit me fromentering into that subject further than to refer to the great constitutional charter under which you are assembled, and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with thosecircumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of arecommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage ofcommunities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world. I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble unionbetween virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between。
“副总统先生,现在您是总统了”--九次特殊的美国总统就职仪式(下)

“副总统先生,现在您是总统了”--九次特殊的美国总统就职仪式(下)作者:王霄郭彩虹编译父亲为儿子主持宣誓就职仪式1923年8月3日清晨,约翰·柯立芝上校叫醒了他的儿子——卡尔文·柯立芝。
当时这位副总统正在他父亲的庄园休假。
“总统先生,您的电文。
”上校对儿子说道。
柯立芝上校的家没有电话。
电文最初由总统的秘书乔治·克里斯汀发到弗蒙特怀特河渡口,渡口总机接着要通了布里奇维特镇的W.A.皮金斯——当地公用电话的负责人。
皮金斯立即动身去找柯立芝的速记员欧文·C.盖西。
然后,众人乘车赶往老上校的庄园。
这封紧急电文称:“沃伦·哈定总统已经在前一天晚上7点半去世。
”农庄昔日平静的生活顷刻间就被打破了。
副总统首先坐到他童年时代写作业的桌子边起草纪念哈定总统的悼词。
悼词写完后,立即有记者自告奋勇去发布新总统的第一份文告,记者们没有意识到,他们因此错过了一次见证父亲给儿子主持宣誓就职的历史性时刻。
接着,柯立芝走到马路对面的杂货店,给查尔斯·欧文斯·休斯国务卿打了个电话。
休斯建议他立即举行宣誓仪式,而且“必须有一个公证人在场”。
柯立芝提出由他的父亲来承担这个任务,老上校是温泽镇的公证员。
就职仪式就在老上校家中的客厅举行,这个小客厅里只有一张桌子,上面放着三本书:《弗蒙特修订法》、《庄园农具索引》和《圣经》,客厅的顶部是一盏老式煤油灯。
上校和他的儿子面对面站在桌子两侧,大约有15名邻居在游廊里见证了这个奇特的宣誓仪式。
凌晨2时47分,仪式结束,柯立芝轻声说道:“上帝保佑。
”此时的农庄人声鼎沸,记者和好奇的邻居挤满了庄园。
当地一家周刊的编辑意识到新总统的家中竟然还没有一部电话,当即将电话公司的老板从床上拖了起来。
很快,一根电话线从上校家的厨房接进了新总统的房间。
清晨,柯立芝动身前往华盛顿,他命令汽车先停在家族墓地旁,然后他在母亲墓前肃立片刻。
日后他回忆说,“我很小的时候,就喜欢在母亲安息之地寻求安慰。
历届美国总统就职演说 中英双语

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史上十大绝妙反驳

史上十大绝妙反驳:不动声色堵死你Wit is a quality that is easily desired, but no so easily obtained. Those who do have it have gained heavy acclaim. Since the beginning of time, mankind has argued and debated against one another, and while some conflicts are won in wars, many of them are won in words. Here are ten of history’s best comebacks, retorts, repartee, insults, or whatever else you’d like to call them. From quotes of Winston Churchill to Oscar Wilde, these are surely people to tell tales about。
机智是人人都很想要的品质,可是却没那么容易得到。
机智的人总是会获得无尽赞美。
自古以来,人类中就有争吵和辩论的存在。
有些矛盾是通过战争解决,有些却是在言语交锋中战胜别人。
下面是史上十大最佳的反驳,你说这些是机敏的回答也好,不动声色的侮辱也好,都可以。
从丘吉尔到王尔德,他们妙语连珠,绝对是机智界的传奇:10. An English Comeback 英式反驳Nancy Astor was an American socialite who married into the wealthy English family of Astor. She actually was the first woman to be elected to Parliament, which makes her humiliation all the sweeter. She was invited to 1912 a dinner party located in the Churchill estate, but, unfortunately for her, she became extremely annoyed at a drunk and politically incorrect Winston Churchill. Finally, she exclaimed the following: “Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your coffee。
美国历史学习-哈丁去世后,总统柯立芝试图重建公众对政府的信任

美国历史本人签名:靓女帅哥 哈丁去世后,总统柯立芝试图重建公众对政府的信任1925年就职典礼上,卡尔文·柯立芝正在演讲1920年代早期,对美国来讲,是一问题诸多的时期。
国会和公众开始发觉了沃伦·哈丁总统政府中的几个政府高官的犯罪行为。
哈丁在去阿拉斯加州和西部州的旅行期间严重患病。
1923年8月他在加利福尼亚州的一个酒店房间中过世。
哈丁的副总统卡尔文·柯立芝成为新总统。
俩人都是共和党人。
他们的各项政策非常相同。
但是,柯立芝是非常不同寻常的人物。
他诚实忠厚。
他是一位国家需要来重建公众对政府信心的总统。
卡尔文·柯立芝闲静且相貌平平。
他是一位农民的儿子、是来自美国东北部佛特蒙州的政治领袖。
年轻的卡尔文勤工俭学干过不同的工作以支付大学学费。
他成为一名律师。
后来他迁到美国东北的马萨诸塞州,在那里他成为共和党政治活动中的极积活动家。
他第一次被选为一个城市的市长。
之后,他被选为州立法委员。
最后,他才被选为马萨诸塞州州长。
做为州长的柯立芝,成为第一次被全美国所熟悉的公众人物。
大约在1919年的卡尔文·柯立芝1919年,一伙波士顿市(美国马萨诸塞州首府)警察试图创办工会组织。
这一举动违反了警察局的规章制度。
所以警察局长暂停了19位工会领袖的工作。
第二天,几乎75%的波士顿市警察走上街头罢警。
两个晚上,犯罪分子自由出入该城。
他们抢夺商店威胁公民安全。
惊恐的全体美国人都在等看州长柯立芝将有何作为。
他采取了强硬的行动。
他要求州军队结束罢工。
他说:反对公共安全的罢工,任何人、任何地方和在任何时间,都是非法的。
大多数美国人赞成柯立芝的行动。
马萨诸塞州老百姓也支持他。
他们以大多数票重选他为州长。
之后,1920年,共和党人任命沃伦·哈丁为总统侯选人。
他们任命卡尔文·柯立芝为副总统。
当总统哈丁在加利福尼亚州去世后,柯立芝、他的太太和2个儿子搬入了白宫。
他是美国第30届总统,从某些方面来说,他是一位不同寻常的国家领导人。
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就职演说1925年3月4日同胞们:在考察当前形势时,任何人都不难看到,令人满意的东西实在很多,而鼓舞人心之处则更是不可胜记。
我国正在全世界率先进行那场巨大冲突①之后的全面重建工作。
今后数年内,我们将背负许多重担,同时也必须准备在某些时候承受那些次要而间接的后果。
但目前我们正开始更确切地考虑,我们应当遵循何种方针,应当运用何种补救措施,应当采取什么行动以解决自己的问题;而且我们正清楚地表明我们意志坚定,决心忠实而自觉地实施这些扶危济困的措施。
由于我们在内政方面已进行了充分调整,②因而信心得到恢复,商业得以复兴,全国各地正在逐步进入一个繁荣的时期。
同时我们也意识到,我们不能孤立地生存下去,因而我们提供了财力和建议,以帮助欧洲各国解除困苦和平息争端。
①因为美国过去所取得的成就和目前的现状,全人类便具有了更为坚定的勇气和更为崇高的愿望,不觉精神为之一振。
①指第一次世界大战(1914—1918)。
②第一次世界大战结束后,共和党政府即着手结束战时政策,解除对企业的过分干涉,任其自由发展,同时采取措施刺激农业生产,国内经济开始走向策荣。
①1924年4月美国国会通过关于德国赔款同题的“道斯计划”,规定向德国贷款两亿美元以刺激其经济复兴,提高其赔款能力,从而有助于缓和法国、比利时等国因德国不能按时赔款而占领德国鲁尔地区所引起的紧张局势。
这些成果并不纯粹是机遇的产物。
它们的取得,乃是许多人不断努力、开动脑筋和付出重大牺牲的结果。
我们必须继续向过去学习,否则在将来就不能保持这些辉煌的成就。
我们若要讲求治国之道,就必须坚持不懈地运用我国以往处理内政外交的经验。
我们如想建立新的大厦,就必须透彻了解原有的基础。
我们应当认识到,人类的本性大体上乃是宇宙中最为恒久的事物,人类关系的本.质也不会发生变化。
我们想保持正确方向,就必须时常根据政治天空中这些固定的星座来确定自己的方位。
我们如能仔细审视已做的工作,就可以精确地决定今后能做些什么。
我们的国家意识通过争取独立的军事行动得以首次明确无误地显示出来,迄今已有一百五十年了,②我们现在正处于这第一百五十个年头的开端。
过去那种分裂和从属的殖民地情感业已消失,代之而起的是一种团结而独立的国家情感。
人们开始摒弃地方宪章的狭隘限制,转而寻求全国性宪法所提供的广阔机会。
③在自由精神的不断激励之下,我们成为一个独立的国家。
将近五十年之后,我们向全世界重申了自己的这种自由和独立,并通过门罗主义而加以捍卫、支持和提供保障。
①美国的国土一度不过是大西洋海岸地区的狭长地带,但后来其边疆不断推移,越过横隔大陆的山脉和平原,一直延伸到太平洋那黄金般的海岸。
②我们使自由成为一种与生俱来的权利。
我们为保障自己的利益,将领土扩展到遥远的岛屿,③并且承担随之而来的责任,赋予那里的不幸人民以正义和自由。
为了捍卫我们自己的理想,同时也为了自由这一具有普遍意义的事业,我们参加了世界大战。
④待到赢得全面胜利,我们便将军队撤回本土,除了因为已尽义务而心安理得之外,并未索取任何补偿。
②1775年北美殖民地开始反抗英国统治的独立战争,至1925年已有一百五十周年了。
③1776年相继宣布独立的各州均制定了各自的宪法,各州自行其是,相互联系松散,而邦联政府也软弱无力。
1787年制定联邦宪法,组成一个较强大的全国政府,使美国获得了更好的发展条件。
参见本书第4页注释②和第11页注释②。
①1823年12月第五任总统詹姆斯·门罗提出“门罗主义”,反对欧洲把美洲当做殖民的对象,此时美国宣布独立已有四十七年。
参见本书第54页注释③。
②美国刚建国时领上只限于大西洋沿岸的狭长地带,仅有十三个州(详见本书第138页注释④);迄于1925年,已发展为匹十八个州,其中在1890—1925年间加入联邦的帅为爱达荷(1890)、怀俄明(1890)、犹他(1896)、俄克拉何马(1907)、亚利桑那(1912)和新墨西哥(1912);参见本书第209页注释③和第240页注释②。
③内战以后美国继续扩张领土。
1867年占领太平洋上的中途岛;1893年策动夏威夷居民推翻当地政府,取得对夏威夷诸岛的控制权;1898年又从西班牙手中取得波多黎各、关岛和菲律宾。
④1917年4月美国参加第一次世界大战,与英、法等国一起对德国作战。
1918年11月战争结束,次年参战美军陆续撤回本土。
通过所有这些活动,我们扩大了自由,加强了独立。
我们日益具备美国特色,而且打算继续弘扬这种美国特色。
我们相信,只要继续公开而真诚、热诚而认真地坚持美国特色,我们就能最好地为自己的国家效力,最成功地履行我们对全人类的义务。
如果说我们有什么遗产,那就在于这一点;如果说我们有什么命运,那我们沿着这个方向即已找到了这种命运。
然而,我们如果想要继续保持鲜明的美国特色,就必须不断使这个名词的含义趋于全面,从而足以容纳一个文明与进步的民族所拥有的各种合理愿望——这个民族决心在一切交往中追求一种真诚而有信仰的生活。
我们不能使自身受到口号的限制和词藻的阻碍。
真正重要的不是修饰性的词汇,而是实质性的事物。
我们最为关切的并不是行动的名称,而是行动的结果。
我们究竟应当奉行孤立主义①还是与那些和平主义者和军国主义者纠缠不清,这种考虑实在不必使我们受到过多的困扰。
地球的自然构造使我们同整个旧世界②分隔开来,但共同的兄弟情谊这一人类最高法则,却用不可分割的纽带将我们与全人类联结在一起。
我们的国家所表示的意图,不过是与世界各国和平相处,但我国不得不维持这样一支军事力量③,只是为了适合我们这一伟大民族的尊严和安全的需要。
这种军事力量应当得到平衡的发展,并且实现高度的现代化,使之无论在海上和陆地,还是在水下和空中,都能完成保卫国家的任务。
不过,我们应该通过我们的行动使全世界看到,这种军事力量并非一种威胁,而是保障安全与和平的工具。
①美国独立后至十九世纪末所奉行的外交政策原则,其要点是:美国的最大利益在美洲,美国与美洲以外的国家除进行商业往来外,决不卷入它们之间的政治纠纷,也不与任何一国结盟(参见本书第225页注释③)。
从二十世纪初开始,美国日益介入世界事务,背离了这一原则。
第一次世界大战后孤立主义情绪回升,主张美国从纷繁的国际事务中抽身。
②指欧洲。
③第一次世界大战后美国海军迅速扩大,接近英国的水平,陆军则保持在十余万人的规模。
我国完全信奉一种光荣的和平,在这种和平之下,我国公民无论身在何处,其权利都应得到保护。
单凭一支威慑性的庞大武装力量就能保障人民享有这种和平,这实在无异于天方夜谈。
美国目前”同其他国家一样,正以前所未有的决心,通过友谊和善意以及相互理解和容忍来促进和平。
我们从未执行军备竞赛的政策。
最近我们与其他几个大国签订了限制海上实力的条约,④由此产生的一个结果是,我们的海军比以往任何时候都要强大。
①消除因尖锐对峙而必然增加的开支负担和相互猜疑,对于抑制那种最能煽起战争之火的无理性的歇斯底里与误解,乃是一种最有效的办法。
这种策略在全世界上代表着一个新的起点。
这是一种业已引向全新行动路线的思潮和理想,然而,要坚持这种政策决非易事。
有些国家从未改变其原有立场,有些国家则时常滑回到过去的思想方式,重新走上大动干戈和依赖武力的老路。
美国既已率先朝着这个新方向前进,就必须坚持这种带头作用。
我们倘若期望别的国家对我们的公平和正义保持信赖,就必须表明我们是信赖他们的公平和正义的。
④指1922年2月在华盛顿会议上美、英、日、法、意等国签署的《五国海军协定》。
①根据《五国海军协定》,美国可以和世界头号海军大国英国建造同等吨位数的主力舰,从而使美国海军跃居与英国平等的水平。
我们如果根据以往的经验做出判断,便可从频繁举行的会议和协商中看出,国际关系的改善大有希望。
我们面前已有了华盛顿会议②的有益成果,也有最近就欧洲问题而举行的各种磋商,有些磋商乃是响应我们的建议而举行的,有些则由我们所积极参与。
磋商即使遭到失败也只能视为有益的事情,因为较之战争的威胁或真正的战争,这已是一个无可估量的进步。
我坚决赞成继续坚持这种做法,因为无论何时,只要在这种情形下,即使只存在一项诺言,也有可能获得实际而有利的结果。
②1921年11月至1922年2月美、英、法、日、意、中、荷、葡等国在华盛顿举行的一次有关远东事务和限制军备的国际会议。
会议期间各国签署了《五国海军协定》、《四强公约》、《九国公约》等国际条约。
在国际交往中,起决定作用的因素应当是显示理智,而不是挟以武力。
我们遵循这一原则,长期以来一直倡导采用仲裁办法和平地解决争端,并议定了多项条约以达到这一目标。
出于同样的考虑,我们应该拥护国际正义永久法庭①。
在涉及重大原则的地方,在有希望给人类带来幸福的伟大运动②正在展开的地方,鉴于其他许多国家都已给这些运动以实际的支持,我们也决不能因为任何无关宏旨的细小分歧而拒绝认可,而只能根据至为重要而无法摆脱的根本理由行事。
我们决不能贪图小利而出卖自己的独立和主权,然而,我们不应该玩弄精巧的逻辑和进行诡辨,借助托词来推卸无疑属于我国的责任,因为我国人口众多,资财雄厚,并在世界上居于领导地位,理应主动表明我们赞同建立一个旨在国与国之间维持公平正义的法庭,并且全面承担我们应尽的全部责任。
为此作出真诚而无私的努力。
我们应当运用自己巨大影响的分量,来支持依照法律、理性以及裁判的方式决定大局,反对动用武力和通过战争以解决问题的做法。
①指海牙国际法庭。
②指二十世纪二十年代初兴起的一场世界性的和平与裁军运动。
我们向来无意于干预其他任何国家的政局,我们尤其下定决心不卷入旧世界的政治纠纷。
我们踌躇再三才答应西半球一些小国的要求,帮助它们维持秩序,保护生命及财产,并建立起负责的政府。
③我国一些公民以私人的名义投入巨额款项支援旧世界,使之获得必需的资金和救济。
④无论什么时候,只要有必要去减轻人类痛苦和帮助遭受不幸的国家进行重建工作,我们向来都是有求必应,今后也决不会置之不理。
由于我们拥有巨大实力,在世界上又占有重要地位,所以这些同样也是必须完成的工作。
③美国以美洲领袖自居,打着“门罗主义”的旗号,控制了拉美许多弱小国家,在古巴、尼加拉瓜、多米尼加、海地等国驻扎军队。
美国的这种做法引起拉美各国的不满,1928年参加泛美会议的各国代表对美国的拉美政策提出了批评。
④第一次世界大战期间,欧洲各国蒙受重大创伤,美国人纷纷投资于欧洲,其中接受美国投资最多的是德国。
长期以来,人类一直在开动脑筋竭力寻求永久和平的方案。
阐明国际法的一些原则无疑是有益的,对于学者们为使各国能接受这些原则而做的准备工作,我们应当给予同情和支持。
那些主张将侵略战争宣布为非法的人们所进行的认真研究,有可能产生许多积极的成果。
然而,所有这些计划和准备工作,所有这些条约和盟约本身并不能完全解决问题。