布什就职演说（英文版）

Chief Justice Rehnquist, President Carter, President Bush, President
Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peaceful
transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With
a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

As I begin, I thank President Clinton for his service to our nation.

And I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and
ended with grace.

I am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America's leaders
have come before me, and so many will follow.

We have a place, all of us, in a long story -- a story we continue, but
whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a
friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that
became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world
to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer.

It is the American story -- a story of flawed and fallible people, united
across the generations by grand and enduring ideals.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that
everyone be
longs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was
ever
born.

Americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws.
And t
hough our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must
follow n
o other course.

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy
was
a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in
many nations.

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the
inborn h
ope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and
pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to
travel.


While many of our citizens prosper, others doubt the promise, even the
justice, of our own country. The ambitions of some Americans are limited
by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their
birth. And sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a
continent, but not a country.

We do not accept this, and we will not allow it. Our unity, our union, is
the serious work of leaders and citizens in every generation. And this is
my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and
opportunity.

I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than
ourselves who creates us equal in His image.

And we are confident in principles that unite and lead us onward.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by
ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests
and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught
these principles. E
very citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these
ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.

Today, we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through
civility, courage, compassion and character.

America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle with a concern for
civility. A civil society demands from each of us good will and respect,
fair dealing and forgiveness.

Some seem to believe that our politics can afford to be petty because, in
a time of peace, the stakes of our debates appear small.

But the stakes for America are never small. If our country does not lead
the cause of freedom, it will not be led. If we do not turn the hearts of
children toward knowledge and character, we will lose their gifts and
undermine their idealism. If we permit our economy to drift and decline,
the vulnerable will su
ffer most.

We must live up to the calling we share. Civility is not a tactic or a
sentime nt. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of
community over chaos. And this commitment, if we keep it, is a way to
shared accomplishment.

America, at its best, is also courageous.

Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when
defending common dangers defined our common good. Now we must choose if
the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. We
must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of
passing them on to
future generations.

Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy
claim more young lives.

We will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from
struggles we have the power to prevent. And we will reduce taxes, to
recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise
of working Americans.


We will build our defenses

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