第一篇：華盛頓總統就職演說中英對照

華盛頓總統就職演講（中英文對照版完整版）

First Inaugural Address of George Washington

THE CITY OF NEW YORK

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789

Fellow-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 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 private good, 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 “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 those circumstances, 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 course of 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 republican model 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 I should 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 Parent of 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.【中文譯文】：

美國人民的實驗

喬治-華盛頓

第一次就職演講

紐約 星期四,1789年4月30日

參議院和眾議院的同胞們：

在人生沉浮中，沒有一件事能比本月14日收到根據你們的命令送達的通知更使我焦慮不安，一方面，國家召喚我出任此職，對于她的召喚，我永遠只能肅然敬從；而隱退是我以摯愛心憎、滿腔希望和堅定的決心選擇的暮年歸宿，由于愛好和習慣，且時光流逝，健康漸衰，時感體力不濟，愈覺隱退之必要和可貴。另一方面，國家召喚我擔負的責任如此重大和艱巨，足以使國內最有才智和經驗的人度德量力，而我天資愚飩，又無民政管理的實踐，理應倍覺自己能力之不足，因而必然感到難以肩此重任。懷著這種矛盾心情，我唯一敢斷言的是，通過正確估計可能產生影響的各種情況來克盡厥職，乃是我忠貞不渝的努力目標。我唯一敢祈望的是，如果我在執行這項任務時因陶醉于往事，或因由衷感激公民們對我的高度信賴，因而受到過多影響，以致在處理從未經歷過的大事時，忽視了自己的無能和消極，我的錯誤將會由于使我誤人歧途的各種動機而減輕，而大家在評判錯誤的后果時；也會適當包涵產生這些動機的偏見。

既然這就是我在遵奉公眾召喚就任現職時的感想，那么，在此宣誓就職之際，如不熱忱地祈求全能的上帝就極其失當，因為上帝統治著宇宙，主宰著各國政府，它的神助能彌補人類的任何不足，愿上帝賜福，侃佑一個為美國人民的自由和幸福而組成的政府，保佑它為這些基本目的而作出奉獻，保佑政府的各項行政措施在我負責之下都能成功地發揮作用。我相信，在向公眾利益和私人利益的偉大締造者獻上這份崇敬時，這些活也同樣表達了各位和廣大公民的心意。沒有人能比美國人更堅定不移地承認和崇拜掌管人間事務的上帝。他們在邁向獨立國家的進程中，似乎每走一步都有某種天佑的跡象；他們在剛剛完成的聯邦政府體制的重大改革中，如果不是因虔誠的感恩而得到某種回報，如果不是謙卑地期待著過去有所預示的賜福的到來，那么，通過眾多截然不同的集團的平靜思考和自愿贊同來完成改革，這種方式是不能與大多數政府的組建方式同日而語的。在目前轉折關頭，我產生這些想法確實是深有所感而不能自已，我相信大家會和我懷有同感，即除了仰仗上帝的力量，一個新生的自由政府別無他法能一開始就事事順利。根據設立行政部門的條款，總統有責任“將他認為必要而妥善的措施提請國會審議”。但在目前與各位見面的這個場合，恕我不進一步討論這個問題，而只提一下偉大的憲法，它使各位今天聚集一堂，它規定了各位的權限，指出了各位應該注意的目標。在這樣的場合，更恰當、也更能反映我內心激情的做法是不提出具體措施，而是稱頌將要規劃和采納這些措施的當選者的才能、正直和愛國心。我從這些高貴品格中看到了最可靠的保證：其一，任何地方偏見或地方感情，任何意見分歧或黨派敵視，都不能使我們偏離全局觀點和公平觀點，即必須維護這個由不同地區和利益所組成的大聯合；因此，其二，我國的政策將會以純潔而堅定的個人道德原則為基礎，而自由政府將會以那贏得民心和全世界尊敬的一切特點而顯示其優越性。我對國家的一片熱愛之心激勵著我滿懷喜悅地展望這幅遠景，因為根據自然界的構成和發展趨勢，在美德與幸福之間，責任與利益之間，恪守誠實寬厚的政策與獲得社會繁榮幸福的碩果之間，有著密不可分的統一；因為我們應該同樣相信，上帝親自規定了水恒的秩序和權利法則，它決不可能對無視這些法則的國家慈祥地加以贊許；因為人們理所當然地、滿懷深情地、也許是最后一次把維護神圣的自由之火和共和制政府的命運，系于美國人所遵命進行的實驗上。

我已將有感于這一聚會場合的想法奉告各位，現在我就要向大家告辭；但在此以前，我要再一次以謙卑的心情祈求仁慈的上帝給予幫助。因為承蒙上帝的恩賜，美國人有了深思熟慮的機會，以及為確保聯邦的安全和促進幸福，用前所未有的一致意見來決定政府體制的意向；因而，同樣明顯的是，上帝將保佑我們擴大眼界，心平氣和地進行協商，并采取明智的措施，而這些都是本屆政府取得成功所必不可少的依靠。

第二篇：華盛頓總統就職演說

First Inaugural Address of George Washington

THE CITY OF NEW YORK

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789

Fellow-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 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 private good, 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 “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 those circumstances, 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 course of 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 republican model 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 I should 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 Parent of 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.【中文譯文】：

美國人民的實驗

喬治-華盛頓

第一次就職演講

紐約 星期四,1789年4月30日

參議院和眾議院的同胞們：

在人生沉浮中，沒有一件事能比本月14日收到根據你們的命令送達的通知更使我焦慮不安，一方面，國家召喚我出任此職，對于她的召喚，我永遠只能肅然敬從；而隱退是我以摯愛心憎、滿腔希望和堅定的決心選擇的暮年歸宿，由于愛好和習慣，且時光流逝，健康漸衰，時感體力不濟，愈覺隱退之必要和可貴。另一方面，國家召喚我擔負的責任如此重大和艱巨，足以使國內最有才智和經驗的人度德量力，而我天資愚飩，又無民政管理的實踐，理應倍覺自己能力之不足，因而必然感到難以肩此重任。懷著這種矛盾心情，我唯一敢斷言的是，通過正確估計可能產生影響的各種情況來克盡厥職，乃是我忠貞不渝的努力目標。我唯一敢祈望的是，如果我在執行這項任務時因陶醉于往事，或因由衷感激公民們對我的高度信賴，因而受到過多影響，以致在處理從未經歷過的大事時，忽視了自己的無能和消極，我的錯誤將會由于使我誤人歧途的各種動機而減輕，而大家在評判錯誤的后果時；也會適當包涵產生這些動機的偏見。

既然這就是我在遵奉公眾召喚就任現職時的感想，那么，在此宣誓就職之際，如不熱忱地祈求全能的上帝就極其失當，因為上帝統治著宇宙，主宰著各國政府，它的神助能彌補人類的任何不足，愿上帝賜福，侃佑一個為美國人民的自由和幸福而組成的政府，保佑它為這些基本目的而作出奉獻，保佑政府的各項行政措施在我負責之下都能成功地發揮作用。我相信，在向公眾利益和私人利益的偉大締造者獻上這份崇敬時，這些活也同樣表達了各位和廣大公民的心意。沒有人能比美國人更堅定不移地承認和崇拜掌管人間事務的上帝。他們在邁向獨立國家的進程中，似乎每走一步都有某種天佑的跡象；他們在剛剛完成的聯邦政府體制的重大改革中，如果不是因虔誠的感恩而得到某種回報，如果不是謙卑地期待著過去有所預示的賜福的到來，那么，通過眾多截然不同的集團的平靜思考和自愿贊同來完成改革，這種方式是不能與大多數政府的組建方式同日而語的。在目前轉折關頭，我產生這些想法確實是深有所感而不能自已，我相信大家會和我懷有同感，即除了仰仗上帝的力量，一個新生的自由政府別無他法能一開始就事事順利。根據設立行政部門的條款，總統有責任“將他認為必要而妥善的措施提請國會審議”。但在目前與各位見面的這個場合，恕我不進一步討論這個問題，而只提一下偉大的憲法，它使各位今天聚集一堂，它規定了各位的權限，指出了各位應該注意的目標。在這樣的場合，更恰當、也更能反映我內心激情的做法是不提出具體措施，而是稱頌將要規劃和采納這些措施的當選者的才能、正直和愛國心。我從這些高貴品格中看到了最可靠的保證：其一，任何地方偏見或地方感情，任何意見分歧或黨派敵視，都不能使我們偏離全局觀點和公平觀點，即必須維護這個由不同地區和利益所組成的大聯合；因此，其二，我國的政策將會以純潔而堅定的個人道德原則為基礎，而自由政府將會以那贏得民心和全世界尊敬的一切特點而顯示其優越性。我對國家的一片熱愛之心激勵著我滿懷喜悅地展望這幅遠景，因為根據自然界的構成和發展趨勢，在美德與幸福之間，責任與利益之間，恪守誠實寬厚的政策與獲得社會繁榮幸福的碩果之間，有著密不可分的統一；因為我們應該同樣相信，上帝親自規定了水恒的秩序和權利法則，它決不可能對無視這些法則的國家慈祥地加以贊許；因為人們理所當然地、滿懷深情地、也許是最后一次把維護神圣的自由之火和共和制政府的命運，系于美國人所遵命進行的實驗上。

我已將有感于這一聚會場合的想法奉告各位，現在我就要向大家告辭；但在此以前，我要再一次以謙卑的心情祈求仁慈的上帝給予幫助。因為承蒙上帝的恩賜，美國人有了深思熟慮的機會，以及為確保聯邦的安全和促進幸福，用前所未有的一致意見來決定政府體制的意向；因而，同樣明顯的是，上帝將保佑我們擴大眼界，心平氣和地進行協商，并采取明智的措施，而這些都是本屆政府取得成功所必不可少的依靠。

第三篇：華盛頓就職演說

喬治·華盛頓 第一次就職演講（1789年4月30日）

參議院和眾議院的同胞們：

在人生沉浮中，沒有一件事能比本月14日收到根據你們的命令送達的通知更使我焦慮不安，一方面，國家召喚我出任此職，對于她的召喚，我永遠只能肅然敬從；而隱退是我以摯愛心憎、滿腔希望和堅定的決心選擇的暮年歸宿，由于愛好和習慣，且時光流逝，健康漸衰，時感體力不濟，愈覺隱退之必要和可貴。另一方面，國家召喚我擔負的責任如此重大和艱巨，足以使國內最有才智和經驗的人度德量力，而我天資愚飩，又無民政管理的實踐，理應倍覺自己能力之不足，因而必然感到難以肩此重任。懷著這種矛盾心情，我唯一敢斷言的是，通過正確估計可能產生影響的各種情況來克盡厥職，乃是我忠貞不渝的努力目標。我唯一敢祈望的是，如果我在執行這項任務時因陶醉于往事，或因由衷感激公民們對我的高度信賴，因而受到過多影響，以致在處理從未經歷過的大事時，忽視了自己的無能和消極，我的錯誤將會由于使我誤人歧途的各種動機而減輕，而大家在評判錯誤的后果時；也會適當包涵產生這些動機的偏見。

既然這就是我在遵奉公眾召喚就任現職時的感想，那么，在此宣誓就職之際，如不熱忱地祈求全能的上帝就極其失當，因為上帝統治著宇宙，主宰著各國政府，它的神助能彌補人類的任何不足，愿上帝賜福，侃佑一個為美國人民的自由和幸福而組成的政府，保佑它為這些基本目的而作出奉獻，保佑政府的各項行政措施在我負責之下都能成功地發揮作用。我相信，在向公眾利益和私人利益的偉大締造者獻上這份崇敬時，這些活也同樣表達了各位和廣大公民的心意。沒有人能比美國人更堅定不移地承認和崇拜掌管人間事務的上帝。他們在邁向獨立國家的進程中，似乎每走一步都有某種天佑的跡象；他們在剛剛完成的聯邦政府體制的重大改革中，如果不是因虔誠的感恩而得到某種回報，如果不是謙卑地期待著過去有所預示的賜福的到來，那么，通過眾多截然不同的集團的平靜思考和自愿贊同來完成改革，這種方式是不能與大多數政府的組建方式同日而語的。在目前轉折關頭，我產生這些想法確實是深有所感而不能自已，我相信大家會和我懷有同感，即除了仰仗上帝的力量，一個新生的自由政府別無他法能一開始就事事順利。根據設立行政部門的條款，總統有責任“將他認為必要而妥善的措施提請國會審議”。但在目前與各位見面的這個場合，恕我不進一步討論這個問題，而只提一下偉大的憲法，它使各位今天聚集一堂，它規定了各位的權限，指出了各位應該注意的目標。在這樣的場合，更恰當、也更能反映我內心激情的做法是不提出具體措施，而是稱頌將要規劃和采納這些措施的當選者的才能、正直和愛國心。我從這些高貴品格中看到了最可靠的保證：其一，任何地方偏見或地方感情，任何意見分歧或黨派敵視，都不能使我們偏離全局觀點和公平觀點，即必須維護這個由不同地區和利益所組成的大聯合；因此，其二，我國的政策將會以純潔而堅定的個人道德原則為基礎，而自由政府將會以那贏得民心和全世界尊敬的一切特點而顯示其優越性。我對國家的一片熱愛之心激勵著我滿懷喜悅地展望這幅遠景，因為根據自然界的構成和發展趨勢，在美德與幸福之間，責任與利益之間，恪守誠實寬厚的政策與獲得社會繁榮幸福的碩果之間，有著密不可分的統一；因為我們應該同樣相信，上帝親自規定了水恒的秩序和權利法則，它決不可能對無視這些法則的國家慈祥地加以贊許；因為人們理所當然地、滿懷深情地、也許是最后一次把維護神圣的自由之火和共和制政府的命運，系于美國人所遵命進行的實驗

上。

我已將有感于這一聚會場合的想法奉告各位，現在我就要向大家告辭；但在此以前，我要再一次以謙卑的心情祈求仁慈的上帝給予幫助。因為承蒙上帝的恩賜，美國人有了深思熟慮的機會，以及為確保聯邦的安全和促進幸福，用前所未有的一致意見來決定政府體制的意向；因而，同樣明顯的是，上帝將保佑我們擴大眼界，心平氣和地進行協商，并采取明智的措施，而這些都是本屆政府取得成功所必不可少的依靠。

第四篇：華盛頓就職演說

1.吾輩需研習謀與戰，則子可專攻數、理、史、地、工、商、農，則孫可醉心書畫、詩詞、禮樂、雕刻、針織、陶瓷。（I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain）

2.美國首任總統喬治·華盛頓就職演講 1789年4月30日

美國人民的實驗參議院和眾議院的同胞們：

在人生沉浮中，沒有一件事能比十四日收到你們送達的通知，使我焦慮不安。一方面，國家召喚我出任總統一職，對于她的召喚，我只能肅然從命。但我卻十分偏愛、并曾選擇了退隱，我還滿懷奢望，矢志不移，決心以此作為我暮年的歸宿。星轉斗移，我越來越感到隱退的必要和親切，因為喜愛之余，我已經習慣；還因為歲月催人漸老，身體常感不適。另一方面，國家召喚我擔負的責任如此天大而艱巨，足以使國內最有才智和經驗的人度德量力；而我天資愚鈍，又沒有民政管理的經驗，應該倍覺自己能力的不足，因此必然感到難以擔此重任。懷著這種矛盾的心情，我唯一敢斷言的是，通過正確理解可能產生影響的各種情況來克盡職責，乃是我忠貞不渝的努力目標。我唯一敢祈望的是，如果我在執行這項任務時因沉溺于往事，或因由衷感到公民們對我高度的信賴，因而過分受到了影響，以致在處理從未經歷過的大事時，忽視了自己的無能和消極，我的錯誤將會出于動機純正而減輕，而大家在評判錯誤的后果時，也會適當寬容產生這些動機的偏見。

既然這就是我在遵奉公眾召喚就任現職時的感想，那么，在此宣誓就職之際，如不熱情地祈求全能的上帝將是一件非常不當的事。因為上帝統治著宇宙，主宰著各國政府，它的神助能彌補人類的任何不足。愿上帝賜福，保佑一個為了美國人民的自由和幸福而組建的政府，保佑它為這些基本目的而做出奉獻，保佑政治的各項行政措施在我負責之下都能成功地發揮作用。我相信，在向公眾利益和私人利益的偉大締造者獻上這份崇敬時，這些話也同樣表達了各位和廣大公民的心聲。沒有人能比美國人更堅定不移地承認和崇拜掌管人類事務的上帝。他們在邁向獨立國家的進程中，似乎每走一步都有某種天佑的跡象；他們在剛剛完成的聯邦政府體制的重大改革中，如果不是因忠誠的感恩而得到某種回報，如果不是謙卑地期待著過去有所預示的賜福的到來，那么，通過眾多截然不同的集團的平靜思考和自愿贊同來完成改革，這種方式是難以同大多數政府在組建過程中所采用的方式相比的。在轉折關頭，我產生這些想法確實是深有所感而不能自已。我相信大家會和我懷有同感，即如果不仰仗上帝的力量，一個新生的自由政府就無法做到一開始就事事如意。

根據設立行政部門的條款，總統有責任“將他認為必要而適宜的措施提請國會審議”。但在與各位見面的這個場合，恕我不進一步討論這個問題，而只是提一下偉大的憲法，它使各位今天歡聚一堂，它規定了各位的權限，指出了各位應該注意的目標。在這樣的場合，更恰當、也更能反映我內心激情的做法不是提出具體措施，而是稱頌將要規劃和采納這些措施的當選者的才能、正直和愛國心。我從這些高貴品格中看到了最可靠的保證：其一，任何地方偏見或地方感情，任何意見分歧或黨派敵視，都不能使我們偏離全局觀念和公平觀點，即必須維護這個由不同地區和不同利益所組建的大聯合政權；因此，其二，我國的政策將會以純正不移的個人道德原則為基礎，而自由政府將會以贏得民心和全世界尊敬的一切特點而顯示其優越性。我對國家的一片熱愛之心激勵著我滿懷喜悅地展望這幅遠景，因為根據自然界的法則和發展趨勢，在美德與幸福之間，責任與利益之間，恪守誠實寬厚的政策與獲得社會繁榮幸福的碩果之間，有著密不可分的關系；因為我們應該同樣相信，上帝親自規定了永恒的秩序和權利法則，它決不可能對無視這些法則的國家慈顏含笑；因為人們理所當然地、滿懷深情地、也許是最后一次地把維護神圣的自由之火和共和制政府的命運，系于美國人所遵命進行的實踐上。

除了提請各位注意的一般事務外，在當前時刻，根據激烈反對共和制的各種意見的性質，或根據引起這些意見的不同程度，在必要時行使憲法第五條授予的權利究竟有多大益處，將依靠你們來加以判斷和決定。在這個問題上，我無法從過去擔任過的職務中找到借鑒，因此我不提具體建議，而是再一次完全信任各位對公眾利益的辨別和追求；因為我相信，各位只要謹慎避免做出任何可能危及團結和政府利益的修訂，或避免做出應該等待未來經驗教訓的修訂，那么，各位對自由人特有權利的尊重和對社會安定的關注，就足以影響大家慎重考慮在何種程度上堅定不移地加強前者，并有利無弊地促進后者。

除上述意見外，我還要補充一點，而且覺得向眾議院提出最恰當。這條意見與我有關，因此應當盡量講得簡短一些。我第一次榮幸地奉召為國家效勞時，正值我國為自由而艱苦奮斗之際，我對我的職責的看法要求我必須放棄任何俸祿。我從未違背過這一決定。如今，促使我做出這一同樣決定的想法仍然支配著我，因此，我必須拒絕對我不相適應的任何所有個人津貼，因為這些津貼可能是列入并成為政府部門常設基金不可分割的一部分。同樣，我必須懇求各位，在估算我就任的這個職位所需要的費用時，可以根據我的任期以公共利益所需的實際費用為限。

我已經把有感于這一聚會的想法告訴了各位，我就要向大家告辭；在此以前，我還要再一次以謙卑的心情祈求仁慈的上帝給予扶助。因為承蒙上帝的恩賜，美國人民有了深思熟慮的機會，有了為確保聯邦的安全和幸福，用前所未有的一致意見來決定政府體制的權利；既然如此，上帝將同樣明顯地保佑我們逐步擴大眼界，穩定地進行協商，并采取明智的措施，而這些都是本屆政府取得成功所必不可缺少的依靠。

United States first President George Washington inaugural speech

1789

Year

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United States experiment of the Senate and the House of the people, fellow citizens: On the ups and downs of life, nothing could be better than 14th, upon receipt of your notice served on him, makes me anxious.On one hand, countries call I took up the Office of President, for her call, I can only obey the whimsy.But I am still very much favored, and chose to retire, I'm full of hope, perseverance, determination to somehow with this as I get older.Star moving, I feel more and more necessary to retreat and kind, because the spare time, I'm used to;or because people gradually, the body often feel unwell.The other hand, the responsibility of States called me so big and hard enough to make the most intelligent and experienced people dudeliangli and my talent dull and no experience in civil administration, should feel their own lack of ability, and therefore find it difficult to undertake this important task.With such mixed feelings, I dare aver is, through a correct understanding of diligence that may have an impact, but my constant intention.I only dare hope of is, if I in Executive this items task Shi due to addiction Yu past, or due to heartfelt was citizens were on I height of trust, thus excessively by has effects, that in processing never experience had of event Shi, ignored has himself of incompetence and negative, I of errors will will for motivation pure and reduce, and everyone in judge errors of consequences Shi, also will appropriate Catholic produced these motivation of bias.Since this is me in obedience to summons thoughts of serving the public, then, this occasion of oath, if not fervently invoke the Almighty God is a very wrong thing.Because God ruled the universe, dominated by Governments, it's God could help make up for any deficiencies in human.May God bless, bless a United States Government the freedom and happiness of the people and, bless its dedication to these fundamental purposes, bless the political administrative measures can successfully play a role in my charge.I believe that, in the public interest and the private interest of the great founder of tendering this homage, these words also express the views of members and the vast majority of citizens.No one can be bound to acknowledge and adore more than Americans in charge of human affairs of God.They in towards independent national of process in the, seems to each go a step are has a species days Yow of signs;they in just completed of Federal Government system of major reform in the, if not due to loyalty of Thanksgiving and get a species returns, if not humility to looks forward to with past has indicates of gave Fu of coming, so, through many distinct of Group of calm thinking and voluntary endorses to completed reform, this way is to with most Government in formed process in the by used of way compared to of.At the crossroads, I have these ideas really has deep feelings and sentiments.I and I am sure you will have the same feeling, that is, if you do not rely on the power of God, a new Liberal Government will not be able to do everything from the beginning.According to the terms of the establishment of the Executive Branch, the President has the responsibility “as he deems necessary and appropriate measures to draw Congress.” But at this occasion to meet with you, I am afraid I do not further discuss this issue, but simply mention a great Constitution, it gathered together today, it sets out your powers, points out, you should pay attention to the goals.In such situations, more appropriate and more likely to reflect my passion is not put forward specific measures, but praise the election, are going to plan and adopt these measures to the talents, integrity and patriotism.I from these noble character in the see has most reliable of guarantee: one, any place bias or place feelings, any views differences or party hostile, are cannot makes we deviated from global concept and fair views, that must maintenance this by different area and different interests by formed of coalition regime;so, second, China of policy will will to pure not moved of personal moral principles for based, and free Government will will to won hearts and world respect of all features and displayed its superiority.I on national of a love of heart incentive with I full joy to prospect this site vision, because according to nature of rule and development trend, in virtue and happiness Zhijian, responsibility and interests Zhijian, adhere to the honest generous of policy and obtained social prosperity happiness of fruit Zhijian, has inseparable of relationship;because we should also believes, God personally provides has eternal of order and right rule, it never may on ignored these rule of national CI yan smiling;because people granted to, and full soulful to, and Maybe last time was to maintain the sacred fire of liberty and the fate of the Republican government, depends Americans, staked on the practice.In addition to draw attention to general matters, at this point, according to the nature of the various opinions vehemently opposed republicanism, or different degrees according to these views, if necessary, exercise of the fifth article of the Constitution grants the benefits of rights, will rely on you to make a judgement and decisions.In this problem Shang, I cannot from past served as had of positions in the found reference, so I not mention specific recommends, but again once completely trust members on public interests of identify and pursuit;because I believes, members as long as caution avoid made any may endanger solidarity and government interests of amendment, or avoid made should waiting future experience lessons of amendment, so, members on free people unique right of respect and on social settled of concern, on enough to effects everyone carefully considered in what degree Shang firm to strengthened former, And harmless for the latter.In addition to the above comments, I would also like to add that, and propose the most appropriate to the House.This comment concerns me, it should try to speak briefly.The first time I have the honour to respond to when the country comes as the occasion of plain living and hard struggle for freedom in our country, my view of my duties requires me to waive any emolument.I have never deviated from that decision.Now, prompted me to make this same decision still comes over me, so I must decline for all I don't fit any of the personal allowances, as these benefits may be included in and become an integral part of the Standing Fund for government departments.Similarly, I must beg the question, in the estimation of when costs I assumed the position, can according to the term of Office shall be limited to the actual costs required in the public interest.I've put the idea of immortality in the party tells you, I'll leave to everyone;prior to that, I would also like to once again begging for mercy and with humility to God for help.Because the gift of the grace of God, United States people have a chance to deliberate, in order to ensure the safety and well-being of the Commonwealth, with unprecedented consensus to determine the system of government power;in that case, God bless us gradually broaden their horizons will also clear and steadily to consult and take sensible measures, which are indispensable for the success of the Administration is relying on.

第五篇：老布什總統就職演說

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1989

Mr.Chief Justice, Mr.President, Vice President Quayle, Senator Mitchell, Speaker Wright, Senator Dole, Congressman Michel, and fellow citizens, neighbors, and friends:

There is a man here who has earned a lasting place in our hearts and in our history.President Reagan, on behalf of our Nation, I thank you for the wonderful things that you have done for America.I have just repeated word for word the oath taken by George Washington 200 years ago, and the Bible on which I placed my hand is the Bible on which he placed his.It is right that the memory of Washington be with us today, not only because this is our Bicentennial Inauguration, but because Washington remains the Father of our Country.And he would, I think, be gladdened by this day;for today is the concrete expression of a stunning fact: our continuity these 200 years since our government began.We meet on democracy's front porch, a good place to talk as neighbors and as friends.For this is a day when our nation is made whole, when our differences, for a moment, are suspended.And my first act as President is a prayer.I ask you to bow your heads:

Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love.Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely.Make us strong to do Your work, willing to heed and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: “Use power to help people.” For we are given power not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name.There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.Help us to remember it, Lord.Amen.I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise.We live in a peaceful, prosperous time, but we can make it better.For a new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn;for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over.The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on.There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.There are times when the future seems thick as a fog;you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow.Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy through the door to freedom.Men and women of the world move toward free markets through the door to prosperity.The people of the world agitate for free expression and free thought through the door to the moral and intellectual satisfactions that only liberty allows.We know what works: Freedom works.We know what's right: Freedom is right.We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.For the first time in this century, for the first time in perhaps all history, man does not have to invent a system by which to live.We don't have to talk late into the night about which form of government is better.We don't have to wrest justice from the kings.We only have to summon it from within ourselves.We must act on what we know.I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity;in important things, diversity;in all things, generosity.America today is a proud, free nation, decent and civil, a place we cannot help but love.We know in our hearts, not loudly and proudly, but as a simple fact, that this country has meaning beyond what we see, and that our strength is a force for good.But have we changed as a nation even in our time? Are we enthralled with material things, less appreciative of the nobility of work and sacrifice?

My friends, we are not the sum of our possessions.They are not the measure of our lives.In our hearts we know what matters.We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account.We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.What do we want the men and women who work with us to say when we are no longer there? That we were more driven to succeed than anyone around us? Or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better, and stayed a moment there to trade a word of friendship?

No President, no government, can teach us to remember what is best in what we are.But if the man you have chosen to lead this government can help make a difference;if he can celebrate the quieter, deeper successes that are made not of gold and silk, but of better hearts and finer souls;if he can do these things, then he must.America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle.We as a people have such a purpose today.It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world.My friends, we have work to do.There are the homeless, lost and roaming.There are the children who have nothing, no love, no normalcy.There are those who cannot free themselves of enslavement to whatever addiction——drugs, welfare, the demoralization that rules the slums.There is crime to be conquered, the rough crime of the streets.There are young women to be helped who are about to become mothers of children they can't care for and might not love.They need our care, our guidance, and our education, though we bless them for choosing life.The old solution, the old way, was to think that public money alone could end these problems.But we have learned that is not so.And in any case, our funds are low.We have a deficit to bring down.We have more will than wallet;but will is what we need.We will make the hard choices, looking at what we have and perhaps allocating it differently, making our decisions based on honest need and prudent safety.And then we will do the wisest thing of all: We will turn to the only resource we have that in times of need always grows——the goodness and the courage of the American people.I am speaking of a new engagement in the lives of others, a new activism, hands-on and involved, that gets the job done.We must bring in the generations, harnessing the unused talent of the elderly and the unfocused energy of the young.For not only leadership is passed from generation to generation, but so is stewardship.And the generation born after the Second World War has come of age.I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.We will work hand in hand, encouraging, sometimes leading, sometimes being led, rewarding.We will work on this in the White House, in the Cabinet agencies.I will go to the people and the programs that are the brighter points of light, and I will ask every member of my government to become involved.The old ideas are new again because they are not old, they are timeless: duty, sacrifice, commitment, and a patriotism that finds its expression in taking part and pitching in.We need a new engagement, too, between the Executive and the Congress.The challenges before us will be thrashed out with the House and the Senate.We must bring the Federal budget into balance.And we must ensure that America stands before the world united, strong, at peace, and fiscally sound.But, of course, things may be difficult.We need compromise;we have had dissension.We need harmony;we have had a chorus of discordant voices.For Congress, too, has changed in our time.There has grown a certain divisiveness.We have seen the hard looks and heard the statements in which not each other's ideas are challenged, but each other's motives.And our great parties have too often been far apart and untrusting of each other.It has been this way since Vietnam.That war cleaves us still.But, friends, that war began in earnest a quarter of a century ago;and surely the statute of limitations has been reached.This is a fact: The final lesson of Vietnam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory.A new breeze is blowing, and the old bipartisanship must be made new again.To my friends——and yes, I do mean friends——in the loyal opposition——and yes, I mean loyal: I put out my hand.I am putting out my hand to you, Mr.Speaker.I am putting out my hand to you Mr.Majority Leader.For this is the thing: This is the age of the offered hand.We can't turn back clocks, and I don't want to.But when our fathers were young, Mr.Speaker, our differences ended at the water's edge.And we don't wish to turn back time, but when our mothers were young, Mr.Majority Leader, the Congress and the Executive were capable of working together to produce a budget on which this nation could live.Let us negotiate soon and hard.But in the end, let us produce.The American people await action.They didn't send us here to bicker.They ask us to rise above the merely partisan.“In crucial things, unity”——and this, my friends, is crucial.To the world, too, we offer new engagement and a renewed vow: We will stay strong to protect the peace.The “offered hand” is a reluctant fist;but once made, strong, and can be used with great effect.There are today Americans who are held against their will in foreign lands, and Americans who are unaccounted for.Assistance can be shown here, and will be long remembered.Good will begets good will.Good faith can be a spiral that endlessly moves on.Great nations like great men must keep their word.When America says something, America means it, whether a treaty or an agreement or a vow made on marble steps.We will always try to speak clearly, for candor is a compliment, but subtlety, too, is good and has its place.While keeping our alliances and friendships around the world strong, ever strong, we will continue the new closeness with the Soviet Union, consistent both with our security and with progress.One might say that our new relationship in part reflects the triumph of hope and strength over experience.But hope is good, and so are strength and vigilance.Here today are tens of thousands of our citizens who feel the understandable satisfaction of those who have taken part in democracy and seen their hopes fulfilled.But my thoughts have been turning the past few days to those who would be watching at home to an older fellow who will throw a salute by himself when the flag goes by, and the women who will tell her sons the words of the battle hymns.I don't mean this to be sentimental.I mean that on days like this, we remember that we are all part of a continuum, inescapably connected by the ties that bind.Our children are watching in schools throughout our great land.And to them I say, thank you for watching democracy's big day.For democracy belongs to us all, and freedom is like a beautiful kite that can go higher and higher with the breeze.And to all I say: No matter what your circumstances or where you are, you are part of this day, you are part of the life of our great nation.A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls.In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.There are few clear areas in which we as a society must rise up united and express our intolerance.The most obvious now is drugs.And when that first cocaine was smuggled in on a ship, it may as well have been a deadly bacteria, so much has it hurt the body, the soul of our country.And there is much to be done and to be said, but take my word for it: This scourge will stop.And so, there is much to do;and tomorrow the work begins.I do not mistrust the future;I do not fear what is ahead.For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.Our challenges are great, but our will is greater.And if our flaws are endless, God's love is truly boundless.Some see leadership as high drama, and the sound of trumpets calling, and sometimes it is that.But I see history as a book with many pages, and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.The new breeze blows, a page turns, the story unfolds.And so today a chapter begins, a small and stately story of unity, diversity, and generosity——shared, and written, together.Thank you.God bless you and God bless the United States of America.