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1、s odest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America. When our founders body decared Americas independence to the word, and our purposes to the Amighty, they knew that America, to endure, woud have to change. Not change for change sake, but change to preserve Americas idea

2、s: ife, iberty, the pursuit of happiness.Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeess. Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American. On behaf of our nation, I saute my predecessor, President Bush, for his haf-century of service to America, and I thank

3、the miions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over depression, fascism and communism.Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cod War assumes new responsibiities in a word warmed by the sunshine of freedom, but threatened sti by ancient hatreds and new pagues. Raise

4、d in unrivaed prosperity, we inherit an economy that is sti the words strongest, but is weakened by business faiures, stagnant wages, increasing inequaity, and deep divisions among our own peope.When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphod, news traveed sowy across the and b

5、y horseback, and across the ocean by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneousy to biions around the word. Communications and commerce are goba. Investment is mobie. Technoogy is amost magica, and ambition for a better ife is now universa.We earn our iveihood in Am

6、erica today in peacefu competition with peope a across the Earth. Profound and powerfu forces are shaking and remaking our word, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new word has aready enriched the ives of miions of Americans who are a

7、be to compete and win in it. But when most peope are working harder for ess, when others cannot work at a, when the cost of heath care devastates famiies and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and sma; when the fear of crime robs aw abiding citizens of their freedom; and when miions of poo

8、r chidren cannot even imagine the ives we are caing them to ead, we have not made change our friend.We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so. Instead we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidenc

9、e. Though our chaenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restess, questing, hopefu peope, and we must bring to our task today the vision and wi of those who came before us. From our Revoution to the Civi War, to the Great Depression, to the Civi Rights movement, our peop

10、e have aways mustered the determination to construct from these crises the piars of our history. Thomas Jefferson beieved that to preserve the very foundations of our nation we woud need dramatic change from time to time. We, my feow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.Our democracy must

11、be not ony the envy of the word but the engine of our own renewa. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.And so today we pedge an end to the era of deadock and drift, and a new season of American renewa has begun.To renew America we must be bod. We mus

12、t do what no generation has had to do before. We must invest more in our own peope, in their jobs, and in their future, and at the same time cut our massive debt. . .and we must do so in a word in which we must compete for every opportunity. It wi not be easy. It wi require sacrifice, but it can be

13、done, and done fairy. Not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for our own sake. We must provide for our nation the way a famiy provides for its chidren.Our founders saw themseves in the ight of posterity. We can do no ess. Anyone who has ever watched a chids eyes wander into seep knows what pos

14、terity is. Posterity is the word to come, the word for whom we hod our ideas, from whom we have borrowed our panet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibiities. We must do what America does best, offer more opportunity to a and demand more responsibiity from a.It is time to break the bad habit of exp

15、ecting something for nothing: from our government, or from each other. Let us a take more responsibiity, not ony for ourseves and our famiies, but for our communities and our country. To renew America we must revitaize our democracy. This beautifu capito, ike every capito since the dawn of civiizati

16、on, is often a pace of intrigue and cacuation. Powerfu peope maneuver for position and worry endessy about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those peope whose toi and sweat sends ushere and paves our way.Americans deserve better, and in this city today there are peope w

17、ho want to do better, and so I say to a of you here, et us resove to reform our poitics, so that power and priviege no onger shout down the voice of the peope. Let us put aside persona advantage, so that we can fee the pain and see the promise of America. Let us resove to make our government a pace

18、for what Frankin Roosevet caed bod, persistent experimentation, a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays. Let us give this capito back to the peope to whom it beongs.To renew America we must meet chaenges abroad, as we as at home. There is no onger a cear division between what is foreign a

19、nd what is domestic. The word economy, the word environment, the word AIDS crisis, the word arms race: they affect us a. Today as an od order passes, the new word is more free, but ess stabe. Communisms coapse has caed forth od animosities, and new dangers. Ceary, America must continue to ead the wo

20、rd we did so much to make.Whie America rebuids at home, we wi not shrink from the chaenges nor fai to seize the opportunities of this new word. Together with our friends and aies, we wi work together to shape change, est it enguf us. When our vita interests are chaenged, or the wi and conscience of

21、the internationa community is defied, we wi act; with peacefu dipomacy whenever possibe, with force when necessary.The brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Guf, in Somaia, and wherever ese they stand, are testament to our resove, but our greatest strength is the power of our ideas

22、, which are sti new in many ands. Across the word, we see them embraced and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent, who are buiding democracy and freedom. Their cause is Americas cause. The American peope have summoned the change we ceebrate today. You have r

23、aised your voices in an unmistakabe chorus, you have cast your votes in historic numbers, you have changed the face of congress, the presidency, and the poitica process itsef. Yes, you, my feow Americans, have forced the spring. Now we must do the work the season demands. To that work I now turn wit

24、h a the authority of my office. I ask the congress to join with me; but no president, no congress, no government can undertake this mission aone.My feow Americans, you, too, must pay your part in our renewa. I chaenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service, to act on your ideaism

25、, by heping troubed chidren, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much to be done. Enough, indeed, for miions of others who are sti young in spirit, to give of themseves in service, too. In serving we recognize a simpe, but powerfu, truth: we need each o

26、ther, and we must care for one another. Today we do more than ceebrate America, we rededicate ourseves to the very idea of America, an idea born in revoution, and renewed through two centuries of chaenge, an idea tempered by the knowedge that but for fate, we, the fortunate and the unfortunate, migh

27、t have been each other; an idea ennobed by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad diversity, the deepest measure of unity; an idea infused with the conviction that Americas journey ong, heroic journey must go forever upward.And so, my feow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21st

28、 Century, et us begin anew, with energy and hope, with faith and discipine, and et us work unti our work is done. The Scripture says: And et us not be weary in we-doing, for in due season we sha reap, if we faint not. From this joyfu mountaintop of ceebration we hear a ca to service in the vaey. We

29、have heard the trumpets, we have changed the guard, and now each in our own way, and with Gods hep, we must answer the ca.Thank you, and God bess you a!My fow ciizns:Tody w cbr h mysry of Amricn rnw. This crmony is hd in h dph of winr, bu by h words w spk nd h fcs w show h word, w forc h sprin.A spr

30、in rborn in h words ods dmocrcy, h brins forh h vision nd cour o rinvn Amric. Whn our foundrs body dcrd Amrics indpndnc o h word, nd our purposs o h Amihy, hy knw h Amric, o ndur, woud hv o chn. o chn for chn sk, bu chn o prsrv Amrics ids: if, ibry, h pursui of hppinss.Thouh w mrch o h music of our

31、im, our mission is imss. Ech nrion of Amricns mus dfin wh i mns o b n Amricn. On bhf of our nion, I su my prdcssor, rsidn Bush, for his hf-cnury of srvic o Amric, nd I hnk h miions of mn nd womn whos sdfsnss nd scrific riumphd ovr dprssion, fscism nd communism.Tody, nrion risd in h shdows of h Cod W

32、r ssums nw rsponsibiiis in word wrmd by h sunshin of frdom, bu hrnd si by ncin hrds nd nw pus. Risd in unrivd prospriy, w inhri n conomy h is si h words srons, bu is wknd by businss fiurs, snn ws, incrsin inquiy, nd dp divisions mon our own pop.Whn Gor Wshinon firs ook h oh I hv jus sworn o uphod, nws rvd sowy cross h