就职演讲

As we reach toward our hopes, our task is to build on what has gone before--not turning away from the old, but turning toward the new.
追寻希望的过程中，我们的根基始于过去，不能摒弃过去，更要努力创造新事物。
In this past third of a century, government has passed more laws, spent more money, initiated more programs, than in all our previous history.
在过去的三分之一世纪里，政府所通过的法律，所花费的钱财，以及所发起的项目，均超过以往历史的总和。
In pursuing our goals of full employment, better housing, excellence in education; in rebuilding our cities and improving our rural areas;
我们要实现充分就业，改善居住条件，达到优质教育的目标；重建城市和改进乡村地区；
in protecting our environment and enhancing the quality of life in all these and more, we will and must press urgently forward.
保护环境，提高生活质量，在所有这一切以及更多的方面，我们将要而且必须励精图治，一往直前。
We shall plan now for the day when our wealth can be transferred from the destruction of war abroad to the urgent needs of our people at home.
总有一天，我们用于国外毁灭性战争的财富将会转用于满足国内人民的迫切需要。现在我们就应当为这一天的到来做好准备。
The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.But we are approaching the limits of what government alone can do.
美国梦不会降临于那些沉睡不醒的人们中间。 然而，我们正在接近政府单独作为的极限。
Our greatest need now is to reach beyond government, and to enlist the legions of the concerned and the committed.
现在的当务之急乃是突破政府的局限，去争取众多利益所关和乐于献身的人们的支持。
What has to be done, has to be done by government and people together or it will not be done at all.
对于必须完成的事情，当由政府和人民同心协力，方可有成，否则将劳而无功。
The lesson of past agony is that without the people we can do nothing; with the people we can do everything.
过去的惨痛经历使我们懂得，离开人民我们就一事无成，与人民在一起，我们就无往而不胜。
To match the magnitude of our tasks, we need the energies of our people enlisted not only in grand enterprises,
我们的事业宏伟壮丽，因而我们需要人民的力量。我们调动人民不仅是为了投身于宏图大业，
but more importantly in those small, splendid efforts that make headlines in the neighborhood newspaper instead of the national journal.
更加重要的是从事琐碎而光彩夺目的工作，这些工作通常不会成为全国性报刊的头条新闻，而只出现于社区性报纸的头版头条。
With these, we can build a great cathedral of the spirit--each of us raising it one stone at a time, as he reaches out to his neighbor, helping, caring, doing.
借此我们就能建造一座宏伟的精神殿堂，我们每个人只要向自己的邻人援之以手，帮助和爱护他人，并且努力工作，就在为这座殿堂添砖加瓦。
I do not offer a life of uninspiring ease. I do not call for a life of grim sacrifice.
生活不是无趣，不是牺牲。
I ask you to join in a high adventure one as rich as humanity itself, and as exciting as the times we live in.
我要请你加入到这项伟大的事业中，惊奇充实。
总统介绍

理查德·米尔豪斯·尼克松（Richard Milhous Nixon，1913年1月9日－1994年4月22日）是一位美国政治家，曾于1969-1974年担任美国第37任总统，1974年时成为该国历史上第一位在任期内辞职的总统。