Fellow-Citizens: 各位公民：
There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the people, but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people, to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial. 宪法或法律并没有要求总统必须在人民面前宣誓就职，但国家最高行政长官的公开就职仪式显然是恰当的。自政府建立以来，人民——官员宣誓奉献服务的对象——被邀请见证这庄严的仪式。
The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant. The officer covenants to serve the whole body of the people by a faithful execution of the laws, so that they may be the unfailing defense and security of those who respect and observe them, and that neither wealth, station, nor the power of combinations shall be able to evade their just penalties or to wrest them from a beneficent public purpose to serve the ends of cruelty or selfishness. 在人民面前宣誓成为一份相互的契约。官员承诺通过忠实执行法律来服务全体人民，使法律成为尊重和遵守它们的人的可靠防御和保障，使财富、地位或联合的力量都无法逃避公正的惩罚，也无法将法律从有益的公共目的扭曲为残忍或自私的目的。
My promise is spoken; yours unspoken, but not the less real and solemn. The people of every State have here their representatives. 我的承诺已经说出；你们的承诺虽然无声，但同样真实而庄严。每个州的人民在这里都有他们的代表。
Surely I do not misinterpret the spirit of the occasion when I assume that the whole body of the people covenant with me and with each other to-day to support and defend the Constitution and the Union of the States, to yield willing obedience to all the laws and each to every other citizen his equal civil and political rights. 当我假定今天全体人民与我、彼此之间都立约支持和捍卫宪法和联邦，自愿服从所有法律，并给予每个其他公民平等的公民和政治权利时，我相信我并没有误解这个场合的精神。
Entering thus solemnly into covenant with each other, we may reverently invoke and confidently expect the favor and help of Almighty God--that He will give to me wisdom, strength, and fidelity, and to our people a spirit of fraternity and a love of righteousness and peace. 我们这样庄严地彼此立约，可以虔诚地祈求并满怀信心地期待全能上帝的眷顾和帮助——愿祂赐予我智慧、力量和忠诚，并赐予我们人民友爱精神和对正义与和平的热爱。
This occasion derives peculiar interest from the fact that the Presidential term which begins this day is the twenty-sixth under our Constitution. 今天开始的总统任期是我们宪法下的第二十六个任期，这一事实赋予了这个场合特殊的意义。
The first inauguration of President Washington took place in New York, where Congress was then sitting, on the 30th day of April, 1789, having been deferred by reason of delays attending the organization of the Congress and the canvass of the electoral vote. 华盛顿总统的第一次就职典礼于1789年4月30日在当时国会所在地纽约举行，由于国会组织和选举人票统计的延误而推迟。
Our people have already worthily observed the centennials of the Declaration of Independence, of the battle of Yorktown, and of the adoption of the Constitution, and will shortly celebrate in New York the institution of the second great department of our constitutional scheme of government. 我国人民已经隆重纪念了《独立宣言》、约克镇战役和宪法通过的百年纪念日，并将很快在纽约庆祝我国宪法政府体系中第二大部门的建立。
When the centennial of the institution of the judicial department, by the organization of the Supreme Court, shall have been suitably observed, as I trust it will be, our nation will have fully entered its second century. 当司法部门的百年纪念——通过最高法院的组织——得到适当纪念时，我相信它会得到纪念，我们的国家将完全进入它的第二个世纪。
I will not attempt to note the marvelous and in great part happy contrasts between our country as it steps over the threshold into its second century of organized existence under the Constitution and that weak but wisely ordered young nation that looked undauntedly down the first century, when all its years stretched out before it. 我不想试图指出我们的国家在跨越门槛进入宪法下有组织存在的第二个世纪时，与那个弱小但秩序井然的年轻国家之间的奇妙且在很大程度上令人欣喜的对比——那个年轻国家曾无畏地展望第一个世纪，当时所有的岁月都展现在它面前。
Our people will not fail at this time to recall the incidents which accompanied the institution of government under the Constitution, or to find inspiration and guidance in the teachings and example of Washington and his great associates, and hope and courage in the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard. 我国人民此刻不会忘记宪法下政府建立时的种种事件，也不会从华盛顿及其伟大同僚的教诲和榜样中寻找灵感和指引，更不会从三十八个人口众多、繁荣昌盛的州与十三个除了勇气和对自由的热爱之外一无所有、当时仅在大西洋沿岸形成边缘的州之间的对比中寻找希望和勇气。
The Territory of Dakota has now a population greater than any of the original States (except Virginia) and greater than the aggregate of five of the smaller States in 1790. 达科他地区现在的人口超过了任何一个原始州（除弗吉尼亚州外），也超过了1790年五个较小州的总和。
The center of population when our national capital was located was east of Baltimore, and it was argued by many well-informed persons that it would move eastward rather than westward; yet in 1880 it was found to be near Cincinnati, and the new census about to be taken will show another stride to the westward. That which was the body has come to be only the rich fringe of the nation's robe. 当我们的国家首都选址时，人口中心在巴尔的摩以东，许多消息灵通的人士认为它会向东而不是向西移动；然而到了1880年，人口中心已接近辛辛那提，即将进行的新人口普查将显示它又向西迈进了一步。曾经是主体的地方现在只成为国家长袍上富有的边缘。
But our growth has not been limited to territory, population and aggregate wealth, marvelous as it has been in each of those directions. The masses of our people are better fed, clothed, and housed than their fathers were. 但我们的增长不仅限于领土、人口和总财富——尽管在这每一个方面都取得了惊人的成就。我国人民的大多数人比他们的父辈吃得更好、穿得更好、住得更好。
The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused. 大众教育的设施得到了极大的扩大和更广泛的普及。
The virtues of courage and patriotism have given recent proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people. The influences of religion have been multiplied and strengthened. The sweet offices of charity have greatly increased. The virtue of temperance is held in higher estimation. 勇气和爱国的美德最近证明了它们在我国人民心中的持续存在和日益增强的力量。宗教的影响力倍增并加强了。慈善的美好事业大幅增加。节制的美德受到更高的重视。
We have not attained an ideal condition. Not all of our people are happy and prosperous; not all of them are virtuous and law-abiding. 我们还没有达到理想的状态。并非所有人民都幸福繁荣；并非所有人都品德高尚、遵纪守法。
But on the whole the opportunities offered to the individual to secure the comforts of life are better than are found elsewhere and largely better than they were here one hundred years ago. 但总体而言，个人获得生活舒适的机会比其他地方更好，并且在很大程度上比一百年前这里更好。
The surrender of a large measure of sovereignty to the General Government, effected by the adoption of the Constitution, was not accomplished until the suggestions of reason were strongly reenforced by the more imperative voice of experience. 通过采纳宪法，将很大一部分主权让渡给联邦政府，这一过程直到理性的建议被更紧迫的经验之声有力加强后才完成。
The divergent interests of peace speedily demanded a "more perfect union." The merchant, the shipmaster, and the manufacturer discovered and disclosed to our statesmen and to the people that commercial emancipation must be added to the political freedom which had been so bravely won. 和平时期不同的利益迅速要求建立一个"更完善的联邦"。商人、船长和制造商向我们的政治家和人民发现并揭示，必须在已经英勇赢得的政治自由之上加上商业解放。
The commercial policy of the mother country had not relaxed any of its hard and oppressive features. To hold in check the development of our commercial marine, to prevent or retard the establishment and growth of manufactures in the States, and so to secure the American market for their shops and the carrying trade for their ships, was the policy of European statesmen, and was pursued with the most selfish vigor. 母国的商业政策丝毫没有放松其强硬和压迫性的特征。抑制我们商业海运的发展，阻止或延缓各州制造业的建立，从而确保其商店获得美国市场、其船只获得运输贸易，这是欧洲政治家的政策，并以最自私的活力推行。
Petitions poured in upon Congress urging the imposition of discriminating duties that should encourage the production of needed things at home. 请愿书涌入国会，敦促征收差别关税，鼓励国内生产所需的商品。
The patriotism of the people, which no longer found afield of exercise in war, was energetically directed to the duty of equipping the young Republic for the defense of its independence by making its people self-dependent. Societies for the promotion of home manufactures and for encouraging the use of domestics in the dress of the people were organized in many of the States. 不再在战场上找到锻炼机会的人民的爱国精神，被积极引导到装备年轻共和国、使其人民自给自足以保卫其独立的职责上。许多州组织了促进国内制造业和鼓励人民在服装中使用本国产品的社团。
The revival at the end of the century of the same patriotic interest in the preservation and development of domestic industries and the defense of our working people against injurious foreign competition is an incident worthy of attention. It is not a departure but a return that we have witnessed. 世纪末对保护和发展国内产业、保护我国工人免受有害外国竞争的同样爱国兴趣的复兴，是一个值得关注的事件。我们所见证的不是背离，而是回归。
The protective policy had then its opponents. The argument was made, as now, that its benefits inured to particular classes or sections. 保护性政策当时就有反对者。当时就像现在一样，有人争辩说其好处只惠及特定阶级或地区。
If the question became in any sense or at any time sectional, it was only because slavery existed in some of the States. 如果这个问题在任何意义上或任何时候变成地区性的，那只是因为一些州存在奴隶制。
But for this there was no reason why the cotton-producing States should not have led or walked abreast with the New England States in the production of cotton fabrics. 若非如此，产棉州没有理由不在棉纺织生产方面领先或与新英格兰州并肩前进。
There was this reason only why the States that divide with Pennsylvania the mineral treasures of the great southeastern and central mountain ranges should have been so tardy in bringing to the smelting furnace and to the mill the coal and iron from their near opposing hillsides. 唯一的原因是，与宾夕法尼亚州共同拥有东南部和中部山脉巨大矿藏的各州，迟迟未能将对面山坡上的煤炭和铁矿石运往冶炼炉和工厂。
Mill fires were lighted at the funeral pile of slavery. The emancipation proclamation was heard in the depths of the earth as well as in the sky; men were made free, and material things became our better servants. 奴隶制的葬礼堆上点燃了工厂之火。解放宣言在地下深处和天空中都被听到；人们获得了自由，物质事物成为了我们更好的仆人。
The sectional element has happily been eliminated from the tariff discussion. We have no longer States that are necessarily only planting States. None are excluded from achieving that diversification of pursuits among the people which brings wealth and contentment. 关税讨论中令人欣慰地消除了地区因素。我们不再有必然只是农业州的州。没有任何州被排除在实现人民追求多样化的道路之外，这种多样化带来财富和满足。
The cotton plantation will not be less valuable when the product is spun in the country town by operatives whose necessities call for diversified crops and create a home demand for garden and agricultural products. 当棉花在乡村城镇由工人纺成纱线时，棉花种植园的价值不会降低——这些工人的需求要求多样化的作物，并创造对园艺和农产品的国内需求。
Every new mine, furnace, and factory is an extension of the productive capacity of the State more real and valuable than added territory. 每一个新的矿山、熔炉和工厂都是该州生产能力的扩展，比增加领土更真实、更有价值。
Shall the prejudices and paralysis of slavery continue to hang upon the skirts of progress? How long will those who rejoice that slavery no longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities it put upon their communities? 奴隶制的偏见和瘫痪是否还要继续阻碍进步？那些为奴隶制不复存在而欢欣鼓舞的人还要容忍它给他们的社区带来的无能多久？
I look hopefully to the continuance of our protective system and to the consequent development of manufacturing and mining enterprises in the States hitherto wholly given to agriculture as a potent influence in the perfect unification of our people. 我满怀希望地期待保护制度的继续，以及随之而来的制造业和采矿业企业在迄今完全从事农业的州的发展，这将成为我国人民完美统一的有力影响。
The men who have invested their capital in these enterprises, the farmers who have felt the benefit of their neighborhood, and the men who work in shop or field will not fail to find and to defend a community of interest. 那些在这些企业中投资资本的人、那些感受到邻近益处的农民、以及那些在车间或田间工作的人，将不会找不到并捍卫共同利益。
Is it not quite possible that the farmers and the promoters of the great mining and manufacturing enterprises which have recently been established in the South may yet find that the free ballot of the workingman, without distinction of race, is needed for their defense as well as for his own? 最近在南方建立的大型采矿和制造业企业的农民和推动者，难道不可能发现工人的自由投票——不分种族——不仅对他自己的防御是必要的，对他们自己的防御也是必要的吗？
I do not doubt that if those men in the South who now accept the tariff views of Clay and the constitutional expositions of Webster would courageously avow and defend their real convictions they would not find it difficult, by friendly instruction and cooperation, to make the black man their efficient and safe ally, not only in establishing correct principles in our national administration, but in preserving for their local communities the benefits of social order and economical and honest government. 我毫不怀疑，如果南方那些现在接受克莱的关税观点和韦伯斯特的宪法阐释的人勇敢地承认并捍卫他们的真正信念，他们不难通过友好的指导和合作，使黑人成为他们高效和安全的盟友，不仅在国家管理中确立正确原则，而且在维护当地社区的社会秩序和经济诚实政府的利益方面。
At least until the good offices of kindness and education have been fairly tried the contrary conclusion can not be plausibly urged. 至少在善意和教育的良好作用得到公平尝试之前，相反的结论无法令人信服地被提出。
I have altogether rejected the suggestion of a special Executive policy for any section of our country. It is the duty of the Executive to administer and enforce in the methods and by the instrumentalities pointed out and provided by the Constitution all the laws enacted by Congress. 我完全拒绝为我国任何地区制定特殊行政政策的建议。行政部门的职责是按照宪法指出和提供的方法和工具，管理和执行国会制定的所有法律。
These laws are general and their administration should be uniform and equal. As a citizen may not elect what laws he will obey, neither may the Executive elect which he will enforce. 这些法律是普遍的，其执行应统一和平等。公民不能选择遵守哪些法律，行政部门也不能选择执行哪些法律。
The duty to obey and to execute embraces the Constitution in its entirety and the whole code of laws enacted under it. 遵守和执行的职责包括整个宪法和根据宪法制定的全部法律。
The evil example of permitting individuals, corporations, or communities to nullify the laws because they cross some selfish or local interest or prejudices is full of danger, not only to the nation at large, but much more to those who use this pernicious expedient to escape their just obligations or to obtain an unjust advantage over others. They will presently themselves be compelled to appeal to the law for protection, and those who would use the law as a defense must not deny that use of it to others. 允许个人、公司或社区因法律违背某些自私或地方利益或偏见而无效化法律的恶劣例子充满危险，不仅对整个国家，而且对那些使用这种有害权宜之计逃避正当义务或获得对他人不正当优势的人来说更是如此。他们自己很快将被迫诉诸法律寻求保护，那些将法律作为辩护手段的人不能拒绝他人使用法律。
If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations. 如果我们的大公司更严格地遵守其法律限制和义务，他们就没有太多理由抱怨其权利受到非法限制或其运营受到暴力干涉。
The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity. 一个社区如果通过其公民之间公开或秘密的合谋，剥夺其部分成员在法律下的明确权利，就已经切断了社会秩序和繁荣的唯一安全纽带。
The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector. 邪恶从一个坏的中心向两个方向蔓延。它使实践者道德败坏，并摧毁受害者对法律作为安全保护者的效力的信念。
The man in whose breast that faith has been darkened is naturally the subject of dangerous and uncanny suggestions. Those who use unlawful methods, if moved by no higher motive than the selfishness that prompted them, may well stop and inquire what is to be the end of this. 心中这种信念被黑暗笼罩的人自然容易受到危险和离奇建议的影响。那些使用非法手段的人，如果没有比促使他们的自私更高的动机，不妨停下来问问这将走向何方。
An unlawful expedient can not become a permanent condition of government. 非法手段不能成为政府的永久状态。
If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes? 如果一个社区中受过教育和有影响力的阶层要么实践要么纵容对他们认为不便的法律的系统性违反，当无知阶层很好地学到便利性或所谓的阶级利益是违法的充分理由时，他们还能期望什么？
A community where law is the rule of conduct and where courts, not mobs, execute its penalties is the only attractive field for business investments and honest labor. 一个法律是行为准则、法院而非暴民执行惩罚的社区，才是商业投资和诚实劳动的唯一有吸引力的领域。
Our naturalization laws should be so amended as to make the inquiry into the character and good disposition of persons applying for citizenship more careful and searching. 我们的归化法应修改，使对申请公民身份者的品格和良好性情的调查更加仔细和深入。
Our existing laws have been in their administration an unimpressive and often an unintelligible form. We accept the man as a citizen without any knowledge of his fitness, and he assumes the duties of citizenship without any knowledge as to what they are. 我们现有的法律在执行中是一种不引人注目且常常难以理解的形式。我们接受一个人作为公民，却不了解他是否合适，而他在不了解公民职责是什么的情况下就承担了公民职责。
The privileges of American citizenship are so great and its duties so grave that we may well insist upon a good knowledge of every person applying for citizenship and a good knowledge by him of our institutions. 美国公民的特权如此之大，其职责如此重大，我们完全有理由坚持对每一位申请公民身份的人有充分了解，以及他对我们制度的充分了解。
We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it. There are men of all races, even the best, whose coming is necessarily a burden upon our public revenues or a threat to social order. These should be identified and excluded. 我们不应停止对移民的热情好客，但我们应该停止对移民品格的粗心大意。有些种族的人，即使是最好的种族，他们的到来必然成为我们公共收入的负担或对社会秩序的威胁。这些人应该被识别并排除。
We have happily maintained a policy of avoiding all interference with European affairs. 我们有幸坚持不干涉欧洲事务的政策。
We have been only interested spectators of their contentions in diplomacy and in war, ready to use our friendly offices to promote peace, but never obtruding our advice and never attempting unfairly to coin the distresses of other powers into commercial advantage to ourselves. 我们只是他们外交和战争争论的感兴趣的旁观者，随时准备利用我们的友好关系促进和平，但从不强行提出我们的建议，也从不试图不公平地将其他国家的困境转化为我们自己的商业优势。
We have a just right to expect that our European policy will be the American policy of European courts. 我们完全有理由期望我们的欧洲政策将成为欧洲法院的美国政策。
It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for our peace and safety which all the great powers habitually observe and enforce in matters affecting them that a shorter waterway between our eastern and western seaboards should be dominated by any European Government that we may confidently expect that such a purpose will not be entertained by any friendly power. 我国东部和西部海岸之间的较短水道由任何欧洲政府主导，这显然与所有大国在影响它们的事务中惯常观察和执行的那些和平与安全预防措施不相容，因此我们可以有信心地期望任何友好国家都不会抱有这样的目的。
We shall in the future, as in the past, use every endeavor to maintain and enlarge our friendly relations with all the great powers, but they will not expect us to look kindly upon any project that would leave us subject to the dangers of a hostile observation or environment. 我们未来将像过去一样，尽一切努力维持和扩大我们与所有大国的友好关系，但他们不应期望我们对任何可能使我们面临敌对观察或环境危险的计划持友好态度。
We have not sought to dominate or to absorb any of our weaker neighbors, but rather to aid and encourage them to establish free and stable governments resting upon the consent of their own people. 我们没有试图支配或吞并任何较弱的邻国，而是帮助和鼓励他们建立基于本国人民同意的自由和稳定的政府。
We have a clear right to expect, therefore, that no European Government will seek to establish colonial dependencies upon the territory of these independent American States. That which a sense of justice restrains us from seeking they may be reasonably expected willingly to forego. 因此，我们完全有理由期望任何欧洲政府都不会试图在这些独立美洲国家的领土上建立殖民属地。正义感阻止我们寻求的东西，他们可以合理地期望自愿放弃。
It must not be assumed, however, that our interests are so exclusively American that our entire inattention to any events that may transpire elsewhere can be taken for granted. 然而，不能假设我们的利益完全是美洲性的，可以理所当然地认为我们完全不关注可能在其他地方发生的任何事件。
Our citizens domiciled for purposes of trade in all countries and in many of the islands of the sea demand and will have our adequate care in their personal and commercial rights. 我们在所有国家和许多海岛从事贸易的公民，要求并将得到我们对其人身和商业权利的充分关怀。
The necessities of our Navy require convenient coaling stations and dock and harbor privileges. These and other trading privileges we will feel free to obtain only by means that do not in any degree partake of coercion, however feeble the government from which we ask such concessions. 我们海军的需要要求便利的加煤站和码头及港口特权。我们将自由地获取这些和其他贸易特权，但只能通过在任何程度上都不带有强制性质的手段——无论我们请求这种让步的政府多么弱小。
But having fairly obtained them by methods and for purposes entirely consistent with the most friendly disposition toward all other powers, our consent will be necessary to any modification or impairment of the concession. 但当我们通过完全符合对所有其他国家最友好态度的方法和目的公平获得这些特权后，任何修改或损害这些让步都必须得到我们的同意。
We shall neither fail to respect the flag of any friendly nation or the just rights of its citizens, nor to exact the like treatment for our own. 我们既不会不尊重任何友好国家的国旗或其公民的正当权利，也不会不要求对我们自己的国旗和公民给予同样的待遇。
Calmness, justice, and consideration should characterize our diplomacy. The offices of an intelligent diplomacy or of friendly arbitration in proper cases should be adequate to the peaceful adjustment of all international difficulties. 冷静、公正和体谅应该是我们外交的特点。明智外交的手段或在适当情况下的友好仲裁，应该足以和平解决所有国际困难。
By such methods we will make our contribution to the world's peace, which no nation values more highly, and avoid the opprobrium which must fall upon the nation that ruthlessly breaks it. 通过这些方法，我们将为世界和平做出贡献——没有哪个国家比我们更珍视和平——并避免必然落在无情破坏和平的国家身上的耻辱。
The duty devolved by law upon the President to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint all public officers whose appointment is not otherwise provided for in the Constitution or by act of Congress has become very burdensome and its wise and efficient discharge full of difficulty. 法律赋予总统提名并在参议院的建议和同意下任命所有公共官员的职责——这些官员的任命在宪法或国会法案中没有其他规定——这一职责变得非常繁重，其明智和高效的履行充满困难。
The civil list is so large that a personal knowledge of any large number of the applicants is impossible. The President must rely upon the representations of others, and these are often made inconsiderately and without any just sense of responsibility. 文职人员名单如此庞大，以至于不可能对大量申请人有个人了解。总统必须依靠他人的陈述，而这些陈述往往是轻率做出的，没有任何正当的责任感。
I have a right, I think, to insist that those who volunteer or are invited to give advice as to appointments shall exercise consideration and fidelity. A high sense of duty and an ambition to improve the service should characterize all public officers. 我认为我有权坚持，那些自愿或被邀请就任命提供建议的人应该行使考虑和忠诚。高度的责任感和改进服务的抱负应该是所有公共官员的特征。
There are many ways in which the convenience and comfort of those who have business with our public offices may be promoted by a thoughtful and obliging officer, and I shall expect those whom I may appoint to justify their selection by a conspicuous efficiency in the discharge of their duties. 那些与我们公共办公室有业务往来的人的便利和舒适，可以通过一位体贴和乐于助人的官员以多种方式得到促进，我将期望我可能任命的那些人通过在履行职责时表现出显著的效率来证明他们的选择是合理的。
Honorable party service will certainly not be esteemed by me a disqualification for public office, but it will in no case be allowed to serve as a shield of official negligence, incompetency, or delinquency. 光荣的党派服务当然不会被我视为担任公职的不合格条件，但在任何情况下都不允许它作为官方疏忽、无能或失职的盾牌。
It is entirely creditable to seek public office by proper methods and with proper motives, and all applicants will be treated with consideration; but I shall need, and the heads of Departments will need, time for inquiry and deliberation. Persistent importunity will not, therefore, be the best support of an application for office. 通过适当的方法和正当的动机寻求公职是完全值得称赞的，所有申请人都将得到考虑；但我和各部门负责人将需要时间进行调查和审议。因此，坚持不懈的强求不会是申请公职的最佳支持。
Heads of Departments, bureaus, and all other public officers having any duty connected therewith will be expected to enforce the civil-service law fully and without evasion. 各部门、各局的负责人以及所有其他与此职责有关的公共官员，应充分执行公务员法，不得规避。
Beyond this obvious duty I hope to do something more to advance the reform of the civil service. The ideal, or even my own ideal, I shall probably not attain. Retrospect will be a safer basis of judgment than promises. 除了这一明显的职责外，我希望做更多的事情来推进公务员制度改革。理想，甚至我自己的理想，我可能无法实现。回顾将是比承诺更安全的判断基础。
We shall not, however, I am sure, be able to put our civil service upon a nonpartisan basis until we have secured an incumbency that fair-minded men of the opposition will approve for impartiality and integrity. As the number of such in the civil list is increased removals from office will diminish. 然而，我确信，除非我们确保任职者是反对党公正人士会认可其公正和正直的人，否则我们无法将公务员制度置于无党派基础上。随着文职人员名单中这类人的数量增加，免职将减少。
While a Treasury surplus is not the greatest evil, it is a serious evil. Our revenue should be ample to meet the ordinary annual demands upon our Treasury, with a sufficient margin for those extraordinary but scarcely less imperative demands which arise now and then. 虽然财政部盈余不是最大的罪恶，但它是严重的罪恶。我们的收入应该足以满足财政部的普通年度需求，并为那些不时出现的特殊但几乎同样紧迫的需求留出足够的余地。
Expenditure should always be made with economy and only upon public necessity. Wastefulness, profligacy, or favoritism in public expenditures is criminal. 支出应始终以经济为原则，仅基于公共必要性。公共支出中的浪费、挥霍或偏袒是犯罪行为。
But there is nothing in the condition of our country or of our people to suggest that anything presently necessary to the public prosperity, security, or honor should be unduly postponed. 但我国或我国人民的状况没有任何迹象表明，目前对公共繁荣、安全或荣誉必要的任何事情应该不适当地推迟。
It will be the duty of Congress wisely to forecast and estimate these extraordinary demands, and, having added them to our ordinary expenditures, to so adjust our revenue laws that no considerable annual surplus will remain. 国会有责任明智地预测和估计这些特殊需求，并将其添加到我们的普通支出中，然后调整我们的税收法律，使不会有大量年度盈余剩余。
We will fortunately be able to apply to the redemption of the public debt any small and unforeseen excess of revenue. This is better than to reduce our income below our necessary expenditures, with the resulting choice between another change of our revenue laws and an increase of the public debt. 幸运的是，我们能够将任何小额和意外的收入超额用于偿还公共债务。这比将我们的收入降低到必要支出以下更好——这会导致在再次改变我们的税收法律和增加公共债务之间做出选择。
It is quite possible, I am sure, to effect the necessary reduction in our revenues without breaking down our protective tariff or seriously injuring any domestic industry. 我确信，完全有可能在不破坏我们的保护性关税或严重损害任何国内产业的情况下实现必要的收入减少。
The construction of a sufficient number of modern war ships and of their necessary armament should progress as rapidly as is consistent with care and perfection in plans and workmanship. 足够数量的现代战舰及其必要武器的建造应尽可能快速地进行，同时兼顾计划和工艺的谨慎和完美。
The spirit, courage, and skill of our naval officers and seamen have many times in our history given to weak ships and inefficient guns a rating greatly beyond that of the naval list. That they will again do so upon occasion I do not doubt; but they ought not, by premeditation or neglect, to be left to the risks and exigencies of an unequal combat. 我国海军军官和水手的精神、勇气和技能在我国历史上多次使弱小的船只和低效的火炮获得远超海军名单评级的评价。我毫不怀疑他们在必要时会再次这样做；但他们不应通过预谋或疏忽，被置于不平等战斗的风险和紧急情况中。
We should encourage the establishment of American steamship lines. The exchanges of commerce demand stated, reliable, and rapid means of communication, and until these are provided the development of our trade with the States lying south of us is impossible. 我们应该鼓励建立美国轮船航线。商业交流需要定期、可靠和快速的通信手段，除非提供这些手段，否则我们与南方各州的贸易发展是不可能的。
Our pension laws should give more adequate and discriminating relief to the Union soldiers and sailors and to their widows and orphans. Such occasions as this should remind us that we owe everything to their valor and sacrifice. 我们的养老金法应给予联邦士兵和水手及其遗孀和孤儿更充分和有区别的救济。这样的场合应该提醒我们，我们的一切都归功于他们的英勇和牺牲。
It is a subject of congratulation that there is a near prospect of the admission into the Union of the Dakotas and Montana and Washington Territories. 达科他、蒙大拿和华盛顿地区即将加入联邦，这是值得祝贺的事情。
This act of justice has been unreasonably delayed in the case of some of them. The people who have settled these Territories are intelligent, enterprising, and patriotic, and the accession these new States will add strength to the nation. 其中一些地区的这一正义行为被不合理地推迟了。在这些地区定居的人民是聪明、有进取心和爱国的，这些新州的加入将增加国家的力量。
It is due to the settlers in the Territories who have availed themselves of the invitations of our land laws to make homes upon the public domain that their titles should be speedily adjusted and their honest entries confirmed by patent. 对于那些利用我们的土地法在公共土地上建立家园的地区定居者，他们的所有权应迅速调整，并通过专利确认他们的诚实登记。
It is very gratifying to observe the general interest now being manifested in the reform of our election laws. 令人非常欣慰的是，现在人们对改革我们的选举法表现出普遍的兴趣。
Those who have been for years calling attention to the pressing necessity of throwing about the ballot box and about the elector further safeguards, in order that our elections might not only be free and pure, but might clearly appear to be so, will welcome the accession of any who did not so soon discover the need of reform. 那些多年来一直呼吁迫切需要为投票箱和选民提供进一步保障的人——以使我们的选举不仅自由和纯洁，而且明显如此——将欢迎任何没有这么快发现改革必要性的人的加入。
The National Congress has not as yet taken control of elections in that case over which the Constitution gives it jurisdiction, but has accepted and adopted the election laws of the several States, provided penalties for their violation and a method of supervision. 国民国会尚未控制宪法赋予其管辖权的选举，而是接受并采用了各州的选举法，规定了对违法行为的处罚和监督方法。
Only the inefficiency of the State laws or an unfair partisan administration of them could suggest a departure from this policy. 只有州法律的低效或不公平的党派执行才能建议偏离这一政策。
It was clearly, however, in the contemplation of the framers of the Constitution that such an exigency might arise, and provision was wisely made for it. 然而，宪法制定者显然考虑到可能出现这种紧急情况，并明智地为此做出了规定。
The freedom of the ballot is a condition of our national life, and no power vested in Congress or in the Executive to secure or perpetuate it should remain unused upon occasion. 投票自由是我们国家生活的条件，国会或行政部门为保障或永久维持投票自由而拥有的任何权力，在必要时都不应闲置。
The people of all the Congressional districts have an equal interest that the election in each shall truly express the views and wishes of a majority of the qualified electors residing within it. 所有国会选区的人民都有平等的利益，即每个选区的选举应真实表达居住在其中的大多数合格选民的观点和意愿。
The results of such elections are not local, and the insistence of electors residing in other districts that they shall be pure and free does not savor at all of impertinence. 这种选举的结果不是地方性的，其他选区的选民坚持要求选举纯洁和自由，丝毫没有无礼之处。
If in any of the States the public security is thought to be threatened by ignorance among the electors, the obvious remedy is education. 如果在任何州，人们认为选民中的无知威胁到公共安全，明显的补救办法是教育。
The sympathy and help of our people will not be withheld from any community struggling with special embarrassments or difficulties connected with the suffrage if the remedies proposed proceed upon lawful lines and are promoted by just and honorable methods. 如果所提议的补救办法遵循合法路线并通过公正和光荣的方法推进，我国人民将不会拒绝给予任何在选举权方面遇到特殊困难或障碍的社区以同情和帮助。
How shall those who practice election frauds recover that respect for the sanctity of the ballot which is the first condition and obligation of good citizenship? The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance. 那些实施选举欺诈的人如何恢复对投票神圣性的尊重——这是良好公民身份的首要条件和义务？将投票箱视为魔术师帽子的人已经放弃了他的忠诚。
Let us exalt patriotism and moderate our party contentions. 让我们弘扬爱国主义，缓和我们的党派争论。
Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and justice. 让那些愿意在战场上为国旗献身的人通过促进友爱和正义来更好地证明他们的爱国主义，并为他们的国家增添更高的荣耀。
A party success that is achieved by unfair methods or by practices that partake of revolution is hurtful and evanescent even from a party standpoint. 即使从党派立场来看，通过不公平方法或带有革命性质的做法取得的党派胜利也是有害和短暂的。
We should hold our differing opinions in mutual respect, and, having submitted them to the arbitrament of the ballot, should accept an adverse judgment with the same respect that we would have demanded of our opponents if the decision had been in our favor. 我们应该相互尊重彼此不同的意见，在将它们提交投票裁决后，应该以我们要求对手尊重我们的同样尊重接受不利的判决。
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. 没有其他民族有更值得他们尊重和热爱的政府，也没有一片土地在范围上如此壮丽、在景色上如此宜人、在对企业和劳动的慷慨激励上如此丰富。
God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. 上帝在我们头上放置了一顶王冠，并在我们脚下放置了无法定义或计算的权力和财富。
But we must not forget that we take these gifts upon the condition that justice and mercy shall hold the reins of power and that the upward avenues of hope shall be free to all the people. 但我们绝不能忘记，我们接受这些礼物的条件是，正义和仁慈应执掌权力的缰绳，希望的上升大道应向所有人民开放。
I do not mistrust the future. Dangers have been in frequent ambush along our path, but we have uncovered and vanquished them all. 我不怀疑未来。危险频繁地潜伏在我们的道路上，但我们已经揭露并战胜了它们全部。
Passion has swept some of our communities, but only to give us a new demonstration that the great body of our people are stable, patriotic, and law-abiding. 激情席卷了我们的一些社区，但只是为了向我们展示，我国人民的主体是稳定、爱国和遵纪守法的。
No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent methods without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body. 任何政党都不能长期以牺牲公共荣誉为代价或以粗鲁和不体面的方法追求利益，而不在其内部引起抗议和致命的不满。
The peaceful agencies of commerce are more fully revealing the necessary unity of all our communities, and the increasing intercourse of our people is promoting mutual respect. 商业的和平机构正在更充分地揭示我们所有社区的必要统一性，我国人民日益增加的交往正在促进相互尊重。
We shall find unalloyed pleasure in the revelation which our next census will make of the swift development of the great resources of some of the States. Each State will bring its generous contribution to the great aggregate of the nation's increase. 我们将在下一次人口普查对一些州巨大资源快速发展的揭示中找到纯粹的快乐。每个州将为国家增长的巨大总和做出慷慨的贡献。
And when the harvests from the fields, the cattle from the hills, and the ores of the earth shall have been weighed, counted, and valued, we will turn from them all to crown with the highest honor the State that has most promoted education, virtue, justice, and patriotism among its people. 当田野的收获、山上的牛群和地下的矿石被称重、计数和估价后，我们将把最高荣誉授予那些在其人民中最促进教育、美德、正义和爱国主义的州。