2023年1月2日发(作者：八角游乐园)mmitted, more passionately driven by conscience than any generation in our history.
No people has ever been so clo to the achievement of a just and abundant society, or so possd of the will to achieve it. Becau our strengths are so great, we can afford to apprai our weakness with candor and to approach them with hope.
Standing in this same place a third of a century ago, Franklin Delano Roovelt addresd a Nation ravaged by depression and gripped in fear. He could say in surveying the Nation's troubles: "They concern, thank God, only material things."
Our crisis today is the rever.
We have found ourlves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth.
We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We e around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We e tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them.
To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.
To find that answer, we need only look within ourlves.
When we listen to "the better angels of our nature," we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things—such as goodness, decency, love, kindness. 23
Greatness comes in simple trappings.
The simple things are the ones most needed today if we are to surmount what divides us, and cement what unites us.
To lower our voices would be a simple thing.
In the difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promis more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another—until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
For its part, government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways—to the voices of quiet anguish, the voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart—to the injured voices, the anxious voices, the voices that have despaired of being heard.
Tho who have been left out, we will try to bring in.
Tho left behind, we will help to catch up.
For all of our people, we will t as our goal the decent order that makes progress possible and our lives cure.
As we reach toward our hopes, our task is to build on what has gone before—not turning away from the old, but turning toward the new.
In this past third of a century, government has pasd more laws, spent more money, initiated more programs, than in all our previous history.
In pursuing our goals of full employment, better housing, excellence in education; in rebuilding our cities and improving our rural areas; in protecting our environment and enhancing the quality of life—in all the and more, we will and must press urgen
tly forward.
We 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 home.
The American dream does not come to tho who fall asleep.
But we are approaching the limits of what government alone can do.
Our greatest need now is to reach beyond government, and to enlist the legions of the concerned and the committed.
What has to be done, has to be done by government and people together or it will not be done at all. The lesson of past agony is that without the people we can do nothing; with the people we can do everything.
To match the magnitude of our tasks, we need the energies of our people—enlisted not only in grand enterpris, but more importantly in tho small, splendid efforts that make headlines in the neighborhood newspaper instead of the national journal.
With the, we can build a great cathedral of the spirit—each of us raising it one stone at a time, as he reaches out to his neighbor, helping, caring, doing.
I do not offer a life of uninspiring ea. I do not call for a life of grim sacrifice. I ask you to join in a high adventure—one as rich as humanity itlf, and as exciting as the times we live in.
The esnce of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.
Until he has been part of a cau larger than himlf, no man is truly whole.
The way to fulfillment is in the u of our talents; we achieve nobility in the spirit that inspires that u.
As we measure what can be done, we shall promi only what we know we can produce, but as we chart our goals we shall be lifted by our dreams.
No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together.
This means black and white together, as one nation, not two. The laws have caught up with our conscience. What 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 man.
As we learn to go forward together at home, let us also ek to go forward together with all mankind.
Let us take as our goal: where peace is unknown, make it welcome; where peace is fragile, make it strong; where peace is temporary, make it permanent.
After a period of confrontation, we are entering an era of negotiation.
Let all nations know that during this administration our lines of communication will be open.
We ek an open world—open to ideas, open to the exchange of goods and people—a world in which no people, great or small, will live in angry isolation.
We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.
Tho who would be our adversaries, we invite to a peaceful competition—not in conquering territory or extending dominion, but in enriching the life of man.
As we explore the reaches of space, let us go to the new worlds together—not as new worlds to be conquered, but as a new adventure to be shared.
With tho who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.
But to all tho who would be tempted by weakness, let us leave no doubt that we will be as strong as we need to be for as long as we need to be.
Over the past twenty years, since I first came to this Capital as a freshman Congressman, I have visited most of the nations of the world.
I have come to know the leaders of the world, and the great forces, the hatreds, the fears that divide the world.
I know that peace does not come through wishing for it—that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.
I also know the people of the world.
I have en the hunger of a homeless child, the pain of a man wounded in battle, the grief of a mother who has lost her son. I know the have no ideology, no race. 64
I know America. I know the heart of America is good.
I speak from my own heart, and the heart of my country, the deep concern we have for tho who suffer, and tho who sorrow.
I have taken an oath today in the prence of God and my countrymen to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. To that oath I now add this sacred commitment: I shall concrate my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can summon, to the cau of peace among nations.
Let this message be heard by strong and weak alike:
The peace we ek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings"; with compassion for tho who have suffered; with understanding for tho who have oppod us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this earth to choo their own destiny.
Only a few short weeks ago, we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God es it, as a single sphere reflecting light in the darkness.
As the Apollo astronauts flew over the moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve, they spoke to us of the beauty of earth—and in that voice so clear across the lunar distance, we heard them invoke God's blessing on its goodness.
In that moment, their view from the moon moved poet Archibald MacLeish to write:
"To e the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to e ourlves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now they are truly brothers."
In that moment of surpassing technological triumph, men turned their thoughts toward home and humanity—eing in that far perspective that man's destiny on earth is not divisible; telling us that however far we reach into the cosmos, our destiny lies not in the stars but on Earth
itlf, in our own hands, in our own hearts.
We have endured a long night of the American spirit. But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not cur the remaining dark. Let us gather the light.
Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us ize it, not in fear, but in gladness—and, "riders on the earth together," let us go forward, firm in our faith, steadfast in our purpo, cautious of the dangers; but sustained by our confidence in the will of God and the promi of man.
Second Inaugural Address of Richard Milhous Nixon
Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, Senator Cook, Mrs. Einhower, and my fellow citizens of this great and good country we share together:
When we met here four years ago, America was bleak in spirit, depresd by the prospect of emingly endless war abroad and of destructive conflict at home.
As we meet here today, we stand on the threshold of a new era of peace in the world.
The central question before us is: How shall we u that peace? Let us resolve that this era we are about to enter will not be what other postwar periods have so often been: a time of retreat and isolation that leads to stagnation at home and invites new danger abroad.
Let us resolve that this will be what it can become: a time of great responsibilities greatly borne, in which we renew the spirit and the promi of America as we enter our third century as a nation.
This past year saw far-reaching results from our new policies for peace. By continuing to revitalize our traditional friendships, and by our missions to Peking and to Moscow, we were able to establish the ba for a new and more durable pattern of relationships among the nations of the world. Becau of America's bold initiatives, 1972 will be long remembered as the year of the greatest progress since the end of World War II toward a lasting peace in the world.
The peace we ek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come.
It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace.
Unless we in America work to prerve the peace, there will be no peace.
Unless we in America work to prerve freedom, there will be no freedom.
But let us clearly understand the new nature of America's role, as a result of the new policies we have adopted over the past four years.
We shall respect our treaty commitments.
We shall support vigorously the principle that no country has the right to impo its will or rule on another by force.
We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms, and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.
We shall do our share in defending peace and freedom in
—of "Washington knows best."
A person can be expected to act responsibly only if he has responsibility. This is human nature. So let us encourage individuals at home and nations abroad to do more for themlves, to decide more for themlves. Let us locate responsibility in more places. Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themlves.
That is why today I offer no promi of a purely governmental solution for every problem. We have lived too long with that fal promi. In trusting too much in government, we have asked of it more than it can deliver. This leads only to inflated expectations, to reduced individual effort, and to a disappointment and frustration that erode confidence both in what government can do and in what people can do.
Government must learn to take less from people so that people can do more for themlves.
Let us remember that America was built not by government, but by people—not by welfare, but by work—not by shirking responsibility, but by eking responsibility.
In our own lives, let each of us ask—not just what will government do for me, but what can I do for mylf?
In the challenges we face together, let each of us ask—not just how can government help, but how can I help?
Your National Government has a great and vital role to play. And I pledge to you that where this Government should act, we will act boldly and we will lead boldly. But just as important is the role that each and every one of us must play, as an individual and as a member of his own community.
From this day forward, let each of us make a solemn commitment in his own heart: to bear his responsibility, to do his part, to live his ideals—so that together, we can e the dawn of a new age of progress for America, and together, as we celebrate our 200th anniversary as a nation, we can do so proud in the fulfillment of our promi to ourlves and to the world.
As America's longest and most difficult war comes to an end, let us again learn to debate our differences with civility and decency. And let each of us reach out for that one precious quality government cannot provide—a new level of respect for the rights and feelings of one another, a new level of respect for the individual human dignity which is the cherished birthright of every American.
Above all el, the time has come for us to renew our faith in ourlves and in America.
In recent years, that faith has been challenged.
Our children have been taught to be ashamed of their country, ashamed of their parents, ashamed of America's record at home and of its role in the world.
At every turn, we have been bet by tho who find everything wrong with America and little that is right. But I am confident that this will not be the judgment of history on the remarkable times in which we are privileged to live.
America's record in this century has been
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在尼克松的任期内，将美国军队撤出了越南，逐渐结束了那场使国家陷入危机的战争。透过乒乓球活动尝试与中华人民共和国建立外交关系，并支持中国进入联合国，史称“乒乓外交”，改善了中美关系。尼克松于1972年2月访华，是美国总统第一次访问一个同美国没有正式外交关系的国家，对中国的7天访问被称为“改变世界的一周”。访华期间中美两国政府发表了著名的《上海公报》。尼克松为打开中美关系大门并为改善和发展中美两国关系作出了重要贡献。中美两国关系正常化，美中苏三角外交的态势开始形成，在很长一段时间里成为决定国际形势发展的重要因素之一。
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