第一篇：經典英文短篇演講

The importance of smiling and kindness

Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening.Today I’d like to talk about the importance of smiling and kindness.Life is like a mirror.When you smile, people will smile back.When you treat other people kindly, they will treat you kindly in return.Try to spend one day smiling and being kind to everyone you meet.You will see a big difference in your life.If you keep on smiling and being kind, smiling and kindness will become you habits.If everyone tried to do this, the world would be a kinder, brighter, and happier place.Start smiling right away.That’s all.Thank you.I want to change my life I work extremely hard every day, but I’m very tired.I need to work smarter, not harder.I must find better ways to do my job.I must find more time to enjoy life.I know hard work is a part of everybody’s life.But I work too hard.My hard work is ruining my health.My hard work is killing me.Other people have time for fun，going to bars and going to parties.All I do is get in my car and go to work every day.This life is too hard.I need to make a fresh start.Life is about choices

Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to tell you something very important today.I want tell you that life is about choices.You can choose to be miserable or you can choice to enjoy life.You can choose to improve your health or you can choose to destroy it.I hope you will make correct choices.I hope you will choose to enjoy your family, enjoy your friends, enjoy your work, and enjoy your everyday life.Life is a gift, and we really should enjoy every minute of it.Join the group of people who make good choices.Enjoy your life!

The secret of happiness

Ladies and Gentlemen, today I’m going to talk about happiness.Where does happiness come from? It doesn’t come from other people.It doesn’t come from material things.It doesn’t come from having a lot of money and power.It doesn’t come from being popular.It comes from giving love to other people.It comes from giving you best effort to everything you do.It comes from getting satisfaction from helping other people.It comes from growing smarter and wiser every day.The happiness you feel is equal to the love you give.The more you give, the happier you will be.Three Tips about life Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening.There are three things I want to talk about today.The first thing is, think before you speak.Say positive things, don’t hurt other people with words.The second thing is, treasure every breath.Life is precious.We shouldn’t take anything for granted.We must be thankful for every breath.The third thing is, nothing is impossible.If you think you can, you can.Never doubt yourself.You can do anything.These three things have helped me throughout my life.Thank you.What is more important than money? Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening.Today I’d like to make a small speech on family.I have a question to ask all of you.What is the most important thing in your life? I know many of you will say money is the most important.But I want to tell you, many things are more important than money in life.It’s a shame that most people don’t realize this.Family, health, and happiness, are much more important than money.Without family, health, and happiness, money means nothing.Make sure you remember this important lesson and spend time with your family.People who spend more time with their families are usually healthier and happier.Precious minutes of family time are worth more than money.Make your family your first priority.Care makes the world a better place

Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening.Today I want to talk about care.People only care about themselves.They don’t care about other people.They don’t even care about their family.They don’t care about the environment.They don’t care about their community.Worse of all, they don’t care about their country.I am here to encourage you to start caring.We all want to be treated fairly.We all want to be loved.We all want to be taken care of.We all need clean air to breathe.We all need clean water to drink.We all need green places to enjoy.We all share the same motherland.We all share the same emotions.Let’s do our best to start caring more!That’s it.Thank you for you listening.

第二篇：英文演講

Why Do People Want To Have Less Stressed Life

As modorn society is bringing so much strees to people who want to just make a living, more and more people chosed to have less stress than high salery, glamorous life style and sometimes, fame.So, why do people want to have less stressed life? Some may ask.I think the main reason is almost every knows that stress is a great killer to health.Yes, if you are not even healthy, what are thease money for? It doesn't worth it!It is obvious, no one is not clear about that.There are may be other reasons too.Some people who do cares about their families found they have less time to spend wirh people they love because of the work load caused by stress.The complain“ I don't even know since when my little girl can call me dady!Stress has brought too much from my life!”

Of course, there maybe other reason for people getting away from stress, and i guess i don't have make a list of it.Because, each of you here may raise yourself the question: why do i want to have a less stressed life? And different version of the answer will just pop out your mind!

Everyone, please always remember: Seeking for a successful life is not wrong, but you should always judge the the thing you get and the thing you sacraficed.

第三篇：英文演講

I feel so happy to have the chance to make a speech.The title of my speech is Protect the Environment, Protect Ourselves.I hope you will like it.今天能有機會給大家做這個演講我感到非常榮幸。我演講的題目是保護環境就是保護我們自身，希望大家喜歡。

Everybody knows waste paper and used coke cans are discarded everywhere.You might have seen plastic bags flying in the sky and getting caught in the trees when the wind blows or maybe you have seen old cans floating in the rivers and polluting the water.Our environment is the place in which we live, but it is being ruined by us.大家都能看見廢紙，可樂瓶丟得到處都是；也可能看到過塑料袋滿天飛，當風停的時候就掛在樹上；易拉罐在河里順流而下污染水源。我們大家賴以生存的環境，卻被我們親手破壞了。There is a story about house and trees.It is said that a man’s house was

surrounded by a lot of trees.Though the wind was strong, that man could have a good rest under the trees.How comfortable the life was!One day, that man wanted to enlarge his house, so he cut down all the trees.Then the autumn came without the protection.The strong wind blew the roof of the house into the sky.The whole house was gone with the wind.What a pity!But that’s the price people have to pay for destroying in the ecology balance.People shouldn’t be short-sighted.Protecting the environment is everyone’s task.有一個關于房子和樹的故事。講的是一個人住在樹林圍繞的房子中，盡管風很大，這個人還是可以在樹下安然而坐。這是多么愜意的生活啊！可是有一天，他想擴建他的房屋，所以他把所有的樹都砍掉了。然而，秋天就在這時候來了，因為房子沒有任何的保護，狂風把房頂吹上了天空，整個房子黯然消逝在狂風中。這又是多么遺憾的一件事啊！但是，這就是破壞生態平衡的人所要付出的代價。人類不應該目光短淺，保護環境人人有責。

As you know, there are four kinds of pollution.They are air pollution, water pollution, waste pollution and noise pollution.But what can we do to solve the pollution? I think, firstly, we can make cars that don’t pollute the environment.We can ask companies to use modern clean technology.In some big cities, we can limit the number of cars.Secondly, we can try to use less water and make sure that we do not pollute the water.We can tell factories that they are not allowed to pour waste water into the lakes and rivers.Thirdly, we should not throw rubbish in parks and cities.We can pick up rubbish if we see it.We can put more rubbish bins in our parks and cities.Fourthly, we can live far from the noise and make the laws to limit the noise.大家都知道，有四種污染：空氣污染、水污染、廢棄物污染、噪音污染。但是，我們要怎么做才能避免這些污染呢?

我認為，首先，我們可以讓汽車不再污染環境。我們可以讓現代的公司使用清潔能源。在大城市，可以限制汽車數量。

第二，我們可以嘗試節約用水，并且確保不污染水源。告知工廠，不能將廢水直接傾倒在河流和湖泊。

第三，我們不應該隨便亂扔垃圾，看見隨地亂扔的垃圾的時候，隨手撿起來；并且在我們的城市和公園綠地增設更多的垃圾箱。

第四，我們可以立法，設置最小噪音，從而讓我們遠離噪音。

第四篇：英文演講

Jeff Bezos：We are What We Choose

As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas.在我還是一個孩子的時候，我的夏天總是在德州祖父母的農場中度過。

I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores.我幫忙修理風車，為牛接種疫苗，也做其它家務。

We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially “Days of our Lives.”

每天下午，我們都會看肥皂劇，尤其是《我們的歲月》。

My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S.and Canada.我的祖父母參加了一個房車俱樂部，那是一群駕駛Airstream拖掛型房車的人們，他們結伴遍游美國和加拿大。

And every few summers, we'd join the caravan.每隔幾個夏天，我也會加入他們。

We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car, and off we'd go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers.我們把房車掛在祖父的小汽車后面，然后加入300余名Airstream探險者們組成的浩蕩隊伍。

I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips.我愛我的祖父母，我崇敬他們，也真心期盼這些旅程。

On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old.那是一次我大概十歲時的旅行。

I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car.我照例坐在后座的長椅上。

My grandfather was driving.祖父開著車。

And my grandmother had the passenger seat.祖母坐在他旁邊。

She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell.她一直在吸著煙，我討厭煙味。

......At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic.在那樣的年紀，我會找任何借口做些估測或者小算術。

I'd calculate our gas mileagethey're given after all.天賦得來很容易—畢竟它們與生俱來。

Choices can be hard.而選擇則頗為不易。

You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.如果一不小心，你可能被天賦所誘惑，這可能會損害到你做出的選擇。

This is a group with many gifts.在座各位都擁有許多天賦。

I'm sure one of your gifts is the gift of a smart and capable brain.我確信你們的天賦之一就是擁有精明能干的頭腦。

I'm confident that's the case because admission is competitive and if there weren't some signs that you're clever, the dean of admission wouldn't have let you in.之所以如此確信，是因為入學競爭十分激烈，如果你們不能表現出聰明智慧，便沒有資格進入這所學校。

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels.你們的聰明才智必定會派上用場，因為你們將在一片充滿奇跡的土地上行進。

We humanswill astonish ourselves.我們人類，盡管跬步前行，卻終將令自己大吃一驚。

We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it.我們能夠想方設法制造很多清潔能源。

Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs.也能夠一個原子一個原子地組裝微型機械，使之穿過細胞壁，然后修復細胞。

This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life.這個月，有一個異常而不可避免的事情發生了—人類終于合成了生命。

In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications.在未來幾年，我們不僅會合成生命，還會按說明書驅動它們。

I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain.我相信你們甚至會看到我們理解人類的大腦。

Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newtonsomething that simply couldn't exist in the physical worldthe life you author from scratch on your own-begins.明天，非常現實地說，你們從零塑造自己人生的時代即將開啟。

How will you use your gifts?

你們會如何運用自己的天賦？

What choices will you make? 你們又會作出怎樣的抉擇？

Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions? 你們是被慣性所引導，還是追隨自己內心的熱情？

Will you follow dogma, or will you be original? 你們會墨守陳規，還是勇于創新？

Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure? 你們會選擇安逸的生活，還是選擇一個奉獻與冒險的人生？

Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions? 你們會屈從于批評，還是會堅守信念？

Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize? 你們會掩飾錯誤，還是會坦誠道歉？

Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? 你們會因害怕拒絕而掩飾內心，還是會在面對愛情時勇往直前？

Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling? 你們想要波瀾不驚，還是想要搏擊風浪？

When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless? 你們會在嚴峻的現實之下選擇放棄，還是會義無反顧地前行？

Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder? 你們要做憤世嫉俗者，還是踏實的建設者？

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind? 你們要不計一切代價地展示聰明，還是選擇善良？

......I will hazard a prediction.我要做一個預測。

When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made.在你們80歲時某個追憶往昔的時刻，只有你一個人靜靜對內心訴說著你的人生故事，其中最為充實、最有意義的那段講述，會被你們作出的一系列決定所填滿。

In the end, we are our choices.最后，是選擇塑造了我們的人生。

Build yourself a great story.為你自己塑造一個偉大的人生故事。

Thank you and good luck!謝謝聆聽，好運！

第五篇：英文演講

英文演講：Barry Goldwater: 1964 Republican National Convention Address【英語演講稿】

2011-07-14 14:46:43 來源：互聯網

My good friend and great Republican, Dick Nixon, and your charming wife, Pat;my running mate, that wonderful Republican who has served us so well for so long, Bill Miller and his wife, Stephanie;to Thurston Morton who's done such a commendable job in chairmaning this Convention;to Mr.Herbert Hoover, who I hope is watching;and to that--that great American and his wife, General and Mrs.Eisenhower;to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow Republicans here assembled, and Americans across this great Nation.From this moment, united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man.Together--Together we will win.I accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility.I accept, too, the responsibility that goes with it, and I seek your continued help and your continued guidance.My fellow Republicans, our cause is too great for any man to feel worthy of it.Our task would be too great for any man, did he not have with him the hearts and the hands of this great Republican Party, and I promise you tonight that every fiber of my being is consecrated to our cause;that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to it by enthusiasm, by devotion, and plain hard work.In this world no person, no Party can guarantee anything, but what we can do and what we shall do is to deserve victory, and victory will be ours.The good Lord raised this mighty Republic to be a home for the brave and to flourish as the land of the free--not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism, not to cringe before the bullying of communism.Now, my fellow Americans, the tide has been running against freedom.Our people have followed false prophets.We must, and we shall, return to proven ways--not because they are old, but because they are true.We must, and we shall, set the tides running again in the cause of freedom.And this party, with its every action, every word, every breath, and every heartbeat, has but a single resolve, and that is freedom--freedom made orderly for this Nation by our constitutional government;freedom under a government limited by the laws of nature and of nature's God;freedom balanced so that order lacking liberty [sic] will not become the slavery of the prison shell [cell];balanced so that liberty lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle.Now, we Americans understand freedom.We have earned it;we have lived for it, and we have died for it.This Nation and its people are freedom's model in a searching world.We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world.But, ladies and gentlemen, first we must renew freedom's mission in our own hearts and in our own homes.During four futile years, the administration which we shall replace has--has distorted and lost that vision.It has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom, but it has failed and failed and failed in the works of freedom.Now, failures cements the wall of shame in Berlin.Failures blot the sands of shame at the Bay of Pigs.Failures mark the slow death of freedom in Laos.Failures infest the jungles of Vietnam.And failures haunt the houses of our once great alliances and undermine the greatest bulwark ever erected by free nations--the NATO community.Failures proclaim lost leadership, obscure purpose, weakening will, and the risk of inciting our sworn enemies to new aggressions and to new excesses.And because of this administration we are tonight a world divided;we are a Nation becalmed.We have lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of individual creativity.We are plodding along at a pace set by centralized planning, red tape, rules without responsibility, and regimentation without recourse.Rather than useful jobs in our country, our people have been offered bureaucratic “make work”;rather than moral leadership, they have been given bread and circuses.They have been given spectacles, and, yes, they've even been given scandals.Tonight, there is violence in our streets, corruption in our highest offices, aimlessness amongst our youth, anxiety among our elders, and there's a virtual despair among the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning of their lives.And where examples of morality should be set, the opposite is seen.Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.Now, certainly, simple honesty is not too much to demand of men in government.We find it in most.Republicans demand it from everyone.They demand it from everyone no matter how exalted or protected his position might be.Now the--the growing menace in our country tonight, to personal safety, to life, to limb and property, in homes, in churches, on the playgrounds, and places of business, particularly in our great cities, is the mounting concern, or should be, of every thoughtful citizen in the United States.Security from domestic violence, no less than from foreign aggression, is the most elementary and fundamental purpose of any government, and a government that cannot fulfill this purpose is one that cannot long command the loyalty of its citizens.History shows us--it demonstrates that nothing, nothing prepares the way for tyranny more than the failure of public officials to keep the streets safe from bullies and marauders.Now, we Republicans see all this as more, much more, than the result of mere political differences or mere political mistakes.We see this as the result of a fundamentally and absolutely wrong view of man, his nature, and his destiny.Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberties in return for relieving you of yours, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for Divine Will, and this Nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and upon the acceptance of God as the author of freedom.Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth.They--and let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.Their mistaken course stems from false notions, ladies and gentlemen, of equality.Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences.Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which--which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism.It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people.And, so help us God, that is exactly what a Republican President will do with the help of a Republican Congress.It is further the cause of Republicanism to restore a clear understanding of the tyranny of man over man in the world at large.It is our cause to dispel the foggy thinking which avoids hard decisions in the delusion that a world of conflict will somehow mysteriously resolve itself into a world of harmony, if we just don't rock the boat or irritate the forces of aggression--and this is hogwash.It is further the cause of Republicanism to remind ourselves, and the world, that only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can keep the peace.Now, I needn't remind you, or my fellow Americans regardless of party, that Republicans have shouldered this hard responsibility and marched in this cause before.It was Republican leadership under Dwight Eisenhower that kept the peace, and passed along to this administration the mightiest arsenal for defense the world has ever known.And I needn't remind you that it was the strength and the [un]believable will of the Eisenhower years that kept the peace by using our strength, by using it in the Formosa Straits and in Lebanon and by showing it courageously at all times.It was during those Republican years that the thrust of Communist imperialism was blunted.It was during those years of Republican leadership that this world moved closer, not to war, but closer to peace, than at any other time in the last three decades.And I needn't remind you--but I will--that it's been during Democratic years that our strength to deter war has stood still, and even gone into a planned decline.It has been during Democratic years that we have weakly stumbled into conflict, timidly refusing to draw our own lines against aggression, deceitfully refusing to tell even our people of our full participation, and tragically, letting our finest men die on battlefields, unmarked by purpose, unmarked by pride or the prospect of victory.Yesterday, it was Korea.Tonight, it is Vietnam.Make no bones of this.Don't try to sweep this under the rug.We are at war in Vietnam.And yet the President, who is the Commander-in-Chief of our forces, refuses to say--refuses to say, mind you, whether or not the objective over there is victory.And his Secretary of Defense continues to mislead and misinform the American people, and enough of it has gone by.And I needn't remind you--but I will--it has been during Democratic years that a billion persons were cast into Communist captivity and their fate cynically sealed.Today--Today in our beloved country we have an administration which seems eager to deal with communism in every coin known--from gold to wheat, from consulates to confidences, and even human freedom itself.Now the Republican cause demands that we brand communism as the principal disturber of peace in the world today.Indeed, we should brand it as the only significant disturber of the peace, and we must make clear that until its goals of conquest are absolutely renounced and its relations with all nations tempered, communism and the governments it now controls are enemies of every man on earth who is or wants to be free.Now, we here in America can keep the peace only if we remain vigilant and only if we remain strong.Only if we keep our eyes open and keep our guard up can we prevent war.And I want to make this abundantly clear: I don't intend to let peace or freedom be torn from our grasp because of lack of strength or lack of will--and that I promise you, Americans.I believe that we must look beyond the defense of freedom today to its extension tomorrow.I believe that the communism which boasts it will bury us will, instead, give way to the forces of freedom.And I can see in the distant and yet recognizable future the outlines of a world worthy of our dedication, our every risk, our every effort, our every sacrifice along the way.Yes, a world that will redeem the suffering of those who will be liberated from tyranny.I can see--and I suggest that all thoughtful men must contemplate--the flowering of an Atlantic civilization, the whole of Europe reunified and freed, trading openly across its borders, communicating openly across the world.Now, this is a goal far, far more meaningful than a moon shot.It's a--It's a truly inspiring goal for all free men to set for themselves during the latter half of the twentieth century.I can also see--and all free men must thrill to--the events of this Atlantic civilization joined by its great ocean highway to the United States.What a destiny!What a destiny can be ours to stand as a great central pillar linking Europe, the Americas, and the venerable and vital peoples and cultures of the Pacific.I can see a day when all the Americas, North and South, will be linked in a mighty system, a system in which the errors and misunderstandings of the past will be submerged one by one in a rising tide of prosperity and interdependence.We know that the misunderstandings of centuries are not to be wiped away in a day or wiped away in an hour.But we pledge, we pledge that human sympathy--what our neighbors to the South call an attitude of “simpatico”--no less than enlightened self'-interest will be our guide.And I can see this Atlantic civilization galvanizing and guiding emergent nations everywhere.Now I know this freedom is not the fruit of every soil.I know that our own freedom was achieved through centuries, by unremitting efforts of brave and wise men.And I know that the road to freedom is a long and a challenging road.And I know also that some men may walk away from it, that some men resist challenge, accepting the false security of governmental paternalism.And I--And I pledge that the America I envision in the years ahead will extend its hand in health, in teaching and in cultivation, so that all new nations will be at least encouraged--encouraged!--to go our way, so that they will not wander down the dark alleys of tyranny or the dead-end streets of collectivism.My fellow Republicans, we do no man a service by hiding freedom's light under a bushel of mistaken humility.I seek an America proud of its past, proud of its ways, proud of its dreams, and determined actively to proclaim them.But our example to the world must, like charity, begin at home.In our vision of a good and decent future, free and peaceful, there must be room, room for deliberation of the energy and the talent of the individual;otherwise our vision is blind at the outset.We must assure a society here which, while never abandoning the needy or forsaking the helpless, nurtures incentives and opportunities for the creative and the productive.We must know the whole good is the product of many single contributions.And I cherish a day when our children once again will restore as heroes the sort of men and women who, unafraid and undaunted, pursue the truth, strive to cure disease, subdue and make fruitful our natural environment and produce the inventive engines of production, science, and technology.This Nation, whose creative people have enhanced this entire span of history, should again thrive upon the greatness of all those things which we, we as individual citizens, can and should do.And during Republican years, this again will be a nation of men and women, of families proud of their role, jealous of their responsibilities, unlimited in their aspirations--a Nation where all who can will be self-reliant.We Republicans see in our constitutional form of government the great framework which assures the orderly but dynamic fulfillment of the whole man, and we see the whole man as the great reason for instituting orderly government in the first place.We see--We see in private property and in economy based upon and fostering private property, the one way to make government a durable ally of the whole man, rather than his determined enemy.We see in the sanctity of private property the only durable foundation for constitutional government in a free society.And--And beyond that, we see, in cherished diversity of ways, diversity of thoughts, of motives and accomplishments.We don't seek to lead anyone's life for him.We only seek--only seek to secure his rights, guarantee him opportunity--guarantee him opportunity to strive, with government performing only those needed and constitutionally sanctioned tasks which cannot otherwise be performed.We Republicans seek a government that attends to its inherent responsibilities of maintaining a stable monetary and fiscal climate, encouraging a free and a competitive economy and enforcing law and order.Thus, do we seek inventiveness, diversity, and creative difference within a stable order, for we Republicans define government's role where needed at many, many levels--preferably, though, the one closest to the people involved.Our towns and our cities, then our counties, then our states, then our regional compacts--and only then, the national government.That, let me remind you, is the ladder of liberty, built by decentralized power.On it also we must have balance between the branches of government at every level.Balance, diversity, creative difference: These are the elements of the Republican equation.Republicans agree--Republicans agree heartily to disagree on many, many of their applications, but we have never disagreed on the basic fundamental issues of why you and I are Republicans.This is a Party.This Republican Party is a Party for free men, not for blind followers, and not for conformists.In fact, in 1858 Abraham Lincoln said this of the Republican party--and I quote him, because he probably could have said it during the last week or so: “It was composed of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements”--end of the quote--in 1858.Yet--Yet all of these elements agreed on one paramount objective: To arrest the progress of slavery, and place it in the course of ultimate extinction.Today, as then, but more urgently and more broadly than then, the task of preserving and enlarging freedom at home and of safeguarding it from the forces of tyranny abroad is great enough to challenge all our resources and to require all our strength.Anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome.Those who do not care for our cause, we don't expect to enter our ranks in any case.And--And let our Republicanism, so focused and so dedicated, not be made fuzzy and futile by unthinking and stupid labels.I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.(Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.)And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Why the beauty of the very system we Republicans are pledged to restore and revitalize, the beauty of this Federal system of ours is in its reconciliation of diversity with unity.We must not see malice in honest differences of opinion, and no matter how great, so long as they are not inconsistent with the pledges we have given to each other in and through our Constitution.Our Republican cause is not to level out the world or make its people conform in computer regimented sameness.Our Republican cause is to free our people and light the way for liberty throughout the world.Ours is a very human cause for very humane goals.This Party, its good people, and its unquenchable devotion to freedom, will not fulfill the purposes of this campaign, which we launch here and now, until our cause has won the day, inspired the world, and shown the way to a tomorrow worthy of all our yesteryears.I repeat, I accept your nomination with humbleness, with pride, and you and I are going to fight for the goodness of our land