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发信人: arwei (爱你★久子), 信区: foreign_lg
标 题: George W. Bush Inaugural Address(5)
发信站: 听涛站 (Sat Feb 17 00:43:58 2001), 转信
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek
a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy att
acks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be ci
tizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citize
ns, building communities of service and a nation of character.
Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in
ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. When this spirit o
f citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it. When this sp
irit is present, no wrong can stand against it.
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman Jo
hn Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: "We know the race is not to the swift nor
the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind
and directs this storm?"
Much time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration. The
years and changes accumulate. But the themes of this day he would know: our
nation's grand story of courage and its simple dream of dignity.
We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his pu
rpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in
service to one another.
Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose to
day, to make our country more just and generous, to affirm the dignity of ou
r lives and every life.
This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in th
e whirlwind and directs this storm.
God bless you all, and God bless America.
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