1933年美国总统罗斯福就职演说（英文）
First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roovelt
观察小动物 SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1933
蒋福山 I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the prent situation of our Nation impels. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me asrt my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itlf--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themlves which is esntial to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in the critical days.
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have rin; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by rious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterpri lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered becau they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous u of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is becau the rulers of the excha
nge of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have propod only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their fal leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of lf-ekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
The money changers have fled from their high ats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
西塘旅游 Happiness lies not in the mere posssion of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in
the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad cha of evanescent profits. The dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourlves and to our fellow men.
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Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the fal belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and lfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unlfish performance; without them it cannot live.
互补品和替代品 Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now.
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we f
疯狂的英语ace it wily and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itlf, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the u of our natural resources.
Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better u of the land for tho best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to rai the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purcha the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are ma
ny ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.
彭荆风
