MY COUNTRYMEN: 同胞们：
No one can contemplate current conditions without finding much that is satisfying and still more that is encouraging. Our own country is leading the world in the general readjustment to the results of the great conflict. Many of its burdens will bear heavily upon us for years, and the secondary and indirect effects we must expect to experience for some time. 没有人能够审视当前的状况而不发现许多令人满意之处，以及更多令人鼓舞之处。我们自己的国家正引领世界，对那场大战的结果进行总体调整。它的许多负担将沉重地压在我们身上多年，我们还必须预期在一段时间内经历其次要和间接的影响。
But we are beginning to comprehend more definitely what course should be pursued, what remedies ought to be applied, what actions should be taken for our deliverance, and are clearly manifesting a determined will faithfully and conscientiously to adopt these methods of relief. 但我们开始更加明确地理解应该追求什么样的方针，应该采取什么样的补救措施，应该采取什么样的行动来解救自己，并且正在清楚地展现出一种坚定不移的意志，忠实而认真地采用这些救济方法。
Already we have sufficiently rearranged our domestic affairs so that confidence has returned, business has revived, and we appear to be entering an era of prosperity which is gradually reaching into every part of the nation. Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity. 我们已经充分调整了国内事务，信心已经恢复，商业已经复苏，我们似乎正在进入一个繁荣的时代，这个时代正逐渐延伸到全国的每一个角落。认识到我们不能独自生存，我们已经贡献了我们的资源和智慧，用于救济苦难和解决欧洲各国之间的争端。因为美国是什么样的国家，美国做了什么样的事情，一种更坚定的勇气，一种更高的希望，激励着全人类的心灵。
These results have not occurred by mere chance. They have been secured by a constant and enlightened effort marked by many sacrifices and extending over many generations. We can not continue these brilliant successes in the future, unless we continue to learn from the past. It is necessary to keep the former experiences of our country both at home and abroad continually before us, if we are to have any science of government. 这些结果并非出于偶然。它们是通过持续而开明的努力取得的，这种努力伴随着许多牺牲，延续了多代人。除非我们继续从过去中学习，否则我们无法在未来继续这些辉煌的成就。如果我们想要有任何关于政府的科学，就有必要把我们国家在国内外的以往经验不断置于我们面前。
If we wish to erect new structures, we must have a definite knowledge of the old foundations. We must realize that human nature is about the most constant thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not change. We must frequently take our bearings from these fixed stars of our political firmament if we expect to hold a true course. If we examine carefully what we have done, we can determine the more accurately what we can do. 如果我们希望建立新的结构，就必须对旧的基础有明确的认识。我们必须认识到，人性是宇宙中最恒定的事物之一，人际关系的基本要素不会改变。如果我们期望保持正确的航向，就必须经常从我们政治天空中的这些恒星上确定方位。如果我们仔细审视我们所做的一切，就能更准确地确定我们能做什么。
We stand at the opening of the one hundred and fiftieth year since our national consciousness first asserted itself by unmistakable action with an array of force. The old sentiment of detached and dependent colonies disappeared in the new sentiment of a united and independent nation. Men began to discard the narrow confines of a local charter for the broader opportunities of a national constitution. Under the eternal urge of freedom we became an independent nation. 我们站在第150个年头的开端，自从我们的民族意识以无可置疑的行动和武装力量首次宣示自身以来。依附和从属殖民地的旧情感消失在统一独立国家的新情感中。人们开始抛弃地方宪章的狭窄局限，转向国家宪法的更广阔机遇。在自由永恒的驱使下，我们成为一个独立国家。
A little less than 50 years later that freedom and independence were reasserted in the face of all the world, and guarded, supported, and secured by the Monroe Doctrine. The narrow fringe of states along the Atlantic seaboard advanced its frontiers across the hills and plains of an intervening continent until it passed down the golden slope to the Pacific. We made freedom a birthright. We extended our domain over distant islands in order to safeguard our own interests and accepted the consequent obligation to bestow justice and liberty upon less favored peoples. 不到50年后，那种自由和独立在全世界面前再次得到宣示，并由门罗主义加以保护、支持和巩固。大西洋沿岸狭窄的州带将其边疆推进到中间大陆的山丘和平原，直到它沿着金色的斜坡下行到太平洋。我们使自由成为一种与生俱来的权利。我们将我们的领土扩展到遥远的岛屿，以保障我们自身的利益，并承担由此产生的义务，将正义和自由赋予不那么幸运的民族。
In the defense of our own ideals and in the general cause of liberty we entered the Great War. When victory had been fully secured, we withdrew to our own shores unrecompensed save in the consciousness of duty done. 为了捍卫我们自身的理想，也为了自由这一普遍事业，我们参加了大战。当胜利得到完全确保时，我们撤回了自己的海岸，除了尽到职责的意识外，别无所求。
Throughout all these experiences we have enlarged our freedom, we have strengthened our independence. We have been, and propose to be, more and more American. We believe that we can best serve our own country and most successfully discharge our obligations to humanity by continuing to be openly and candidly, intensely and scrupulously, American. If we have any heritage, it has been that. If we have any destiny, we have found it in that direction. 在所有这些经历中，我们扩大了我们的自由，加强了我们的独立。我们一直是，并打算继续越来越美国化。我们相信，通过继续坦率而公开地、强烈而审慎地做美国人，我们能够最好地服务于我们自己的国家，最成功地履行我们对人类的义务。如果我们有任何遗产，那就是如此。如果我们有任何命运，我们已经在那个方向上找到了它。
But if we wish to continue to be distinctively American, we must continue to make that term comprehensive enough to embrace the legitimate desires of a civilized and enlightened people determined in all their relations to pursue a conscientious and religious life. We can not permit ourselves to be narrowed and dwarfed by slogans and phrases. It is not the adjective, but the substantive, which is of real importance. It is not the name of the action, but the result of the action, which is the chief concern. 但是，如果我们希望继续成为独具特色的美国人，我们就必须继续使这个词足够宽泛，以涵盖一个文明开化的民族在所有关系中所追求的认真而虔诚的生活的正当愿望。我们不能允许自己被口号和套话所狭隘化和矮化。重要的不是形容词，而是名词。重要的不是行动的名称，而是行动的结果。
It will be well not to be too much disturbed by the thought of either isolation or entanglement of pacifists and militarists. The physical configuration of the earth has separated us from all of the Old World, but the common brotherhood of man, the highest law of all our being, has united us by inseparable bonds with all humanity. Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people. 最好不要过于被和平主义者和军国主义者的孤立或纠缠的想法所困扰。地球的物理形态把我们与整个旧世界分隔开来，但人类共同的兄弟情谊——我们存在的最高法则——以不可分割的纽带将我们与全人类联系在一起。我们的国家对整个世界只代表和平的意图，但它不应未能维持一支与一个伟大民族的尊严和安全相称的军事力量。
It ought to be a balanced force, intensely modern, capable of defense by sea and land, beneath the surface and in the air. But it should be so conducted that all the world may see in it, not a menace, but an instrument of security and peace. 它应该是一支平衡的力量，高度现代化，能够在海上和陆地、水面和水下以及空中进行防御。但它应该这样运作，使全世界在其中看到的不是威胁，而是安全与和平的工具。
This nation believes thoroughly in an honorable peace under which the rights of its citizens are to be everywhere protected. It has never found that the necessary enjoyment of such a peace could be maintained only by a great and threatening array of arms. In common with other nations, it is now more determined than ever to promote peace through friendliness and good will, through mutual understandings and mutual forbearance. 这个国家彻底相信一种体面的和平，在这种和平下，其公民的权利应在各地得到保护。它从未发现，这种和平的必要享受只能靠庞大而具有威胁性的武力来维持。与其他国家一样，它现在比以往任何时候都更决心通过友好和善意、通过相互理解和相互宽容来促进和平。
We have never practiced the policy of competitive armaments. We have recently committed ourselves by covenants with the other great nations to a limitation of our sea power. As one result of this, our navy ranks larger, in comparison, than it ever did before. 我们从未实行过军备竞争的政策。我们最近通过与其他大国签订的公约，承诺限制我们的海上力量。作为这一点的结果之一，相比之下，我们的海军比以往任何时候都要强大。
Removing the burden of expense and jealousy, which must always accrue from a keen rivalry, is one of the most effective methods of diminishing that unreasonable hysteria and misunderstanding which is the most potent means of fomenting war. This policy represents a new departure in the world. It is a thought, an ideal, which has led to an entirely new line of action. It will not be easy to maintain. 消除必然伴随着激烈竞争而产生的开支和嫉妒的负担，是减少那种最容易煽动战争的不合理歇斯底里和误解的最有效方法之一。这项政策代表了世界上的一个新起点。它是一种思想，一种理想，已经引出了一条全新的行动路线。要维持它并不容易。
Some never moved from their old position, some are constantly slipping back to the old ways of thought and the old action of seizing a musket and relying on force. America has taken the lead in this new direction, and that lead America must continue to hold. If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice. 有些人从未离开过他们的旧立场，有些人则不断滑回到旧的思维方式以及拿起火枪、依靠武力的旧行动中。美国在这一新方向上率先行动，而美国必须继续保持这一领先地位。如果我们期望别人依靠我们的公平和正义，我们就必须表明我们依靠他们的公平和正义。
If we are to judge by past experience, there is much to be hoped for in international relations from frequent conferences and consultations. We have before us the beneficial results of the Washington Conference and the various consultations recently held upon European affairs, some of which were in response to our suggestions and in some of which we were active participants. Even the failures can not but be accounted useful and an immeasurable advance over threatened or actual warfare. 如果我们根据过去的经验来判断，那么频繁的会议和协商在国际关系中是大有希望的。我们面前有华盛顿会议的成果，以及最近就欧洲事务举行的各项协商，其中一些是应我们的建议而举行的，另一些我们是积极参与者。即使是失败也不得不被认为是有用的，是对受到威胁的或实际的战争行为的不可估量的进步。
I am strongly in favor of a continuation of this policy, whenever conditions are such that there is even a promise that practical and favorable results might be secured. 我强烈赞成继续这项政策，只要条件允许，只要有可能获得实际和有利的结果。
In conformity with the principle that a display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations, we have long advocated the peaceful settlement of disputes by methods of arbitration and have negotiated many treaties to secure that result. The same considerations should lead to our adherence to the Permanent Court of International Justice. 根据理性展示而非武力威胁应成为各国交往中的决定性因素这一原则，我们长期以来一直主张通过仲裁方式和平解决争端，并为此谈判了许多条约。同样的考虑应导致我们加入国际常设法院。
Where great principles are involved, where great movements are under way which promise much for the welfare of humanity by reason of the very fact that many other nations have given such movements their actual support, we ought not to withhold our own sanction because of any small and inessential difference, but only upon the ground of the most important and compelling fundamental reasons. 当涉及重大原则时，当正在进行的重大运动因许多其他国家实际支持而有望为人类福祉带来很大希望时，我们不应因任何微小和非本质的分歧而拒绝给予我们自己的认可，而只应基于最重要和最紧迫的根本理由。
We can not barter away our independence or our sovereignty, but we ought to engage in no refinements of logic, no sophistries, and no subterfuges, to argue away the undoubted duty of this country by reason of the might of its numbers, the power of its resources, and its position of leadership in the world, actively and comprehensively to signify its approval and to bear its full share of the responsibility of a candid and disinterested attempt at the establishment of a tribunal for the administration of even-handed justice between nation and nation. 我们不能放弃我们的独立或主权，但我们不应以任何逻辑的精雕细琢、诡辩和借口，来推卸这个国家因其数量之众、资源之力及其在世界上的领导地位而无可置疑的义务，即积极而全面地表明其认可，并承担其充分份额的责任，以坦诚无私地尝试建立一个在各民族之间公正司法的法庭。
The weight of our enormous influence must be cast upon the side of a reign not of force but of law and trial, not by battle but by reason. 我们巨大影响力的分量必须投向法治而非武力、审判而非战斗这一方。
We have never any wish to interfere in the political conditions of any other countries. Especially are we determined not to become implicated in the political controversies of the Old World. With a great deal of hesitation, we have responded to appeals for help to maintain order, protect life and property, and establish responsible government in some of the small countries of the Western Hemisphere. 我们从未有过干涉任何其他国家政治状况的愿望。我们尤其决心不卷入旧世界的政治纷争。我们带着很大的犹豫，响应了帮助维持秩序、保护生命财产、在西半球一些小国建立负责任政府的呼吁。
Our private citizens have advanced large sums of money to assist in the necessary financing and relief of the Old World. We have not failed, nor shall we fail to respond, whenever necessary to mitigate human suffering and assist in the rehabilitation of distressed nations. These, too, are requirements which must be met by reason of our vast powers and the place we hold in the world. 我们的私人公民已投入大量资金，协助旧世界进行必要的融资和救济。我们没有失败，也不会失败，在必要时缓解人类苦难并协助困境中的国家重建。这些也是我们必须履行的要求，因为我们拥有巨大的力量和在世界上的地位。
Some of the best thought of mankind has long been seeking for a formula for permanent peace. Undoubtedly the clarification of the principles of international law would be helpful, and the efforts of scholars to prepare such a work for adoption by the various nations should have our sympathy and support. Much may be hoped for from the earnest studies of those who advocate the outlawing of aggressive war. But all these plans and preparations, these treaties and covenants, will not of themselves be adequate. 人类一些最优秀的思想长期以来一直在寻求永久和平的方案。毫无疑问，澄清国际法原则将是有帮助的，学者们为各民族通过这样一部作品而作的努力应得到我们的同情和支持。那些主张将侵略战争定为非法的人的认真研究也大有希望。但所有这些计划和准备，这些条约和公约，本身并不足够。
One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived. There must be some assurance that effort and endeavor will be followed by success and prosperity. 对和平的最大危险之一在于人们所承受的经济压力。在世界上要做的最实际的事情之一，就是寻求能够消除这种压力的安排，从而使机会得以更新，希望得以重燃。必须有一些保证，使努力和奋斗能换来成功和繁荣。
In the making and financing of such adjustments there is not only an opportunity, but a real duty, for America to respond with her counsel and her resources. Conditions must be provided under which people can make a living and work out of their difficulties. But there is another element, more important than all, without which there can not be the slightest hope of a permanent peace. That element lies in the heart of humanity. 在进行这类调整的制定和融资中，美国不仅有责任，也有真正的义务以她的智慧和资源作出回应。必须创造条件，使人们能够谋生并解决自己的困难。但还有另一个比一切都重要的要素，没有它，就不可能有丝毫永久和平的希望。那个要素在于人类的心灵。
Unless the desire for peace be cherished there, unless this fundamental and only natural source of brotherly love be cultivated to its highest degree, all artificial efforts will be in vain. Peace will come when there is realization that only under a reign of law, based on righteousness and supported by the religious conviction of the brotherhood of man, can there be any hope of a complete and satisfying life. Parchment will fail, the sword will fail, it is only the spiritual nature of man that can be triumphant. 除非在那里珍惜对和平的渴望，除非把这种手足之情的基本而唯一的自然源泉培育到最高程度，否则一切人为的努力都将徒劳。只有当人们认识到，只有在基于正义、并由人类兄弟情谊的宗教信念所支持的法治之下，才有可能期望过上完整而令人满意的生活时，和平才会到来。羊皮纸会失败，刀剑会失败，只有人的精神本性才能取得胜利。
It seems altogether probable that we can contribute most to these important objects by maintaining our position of political detachment and independence. We are not identified with any Old World interests. This position should be made more and more clear in our relations with all foreign countries. We are at peace with all of them. Our program is never to oppress, but always to assist. But while we do justice to others, we must require that justice be done to us. 我们很可能通过保持政治超脱和独立的立场，对这些重要目标作出最大贡献。我们不与任何旧世界的利益相认同。这一立场应该在我们与所有外国的关系中越来越清楚。我们与他们所有国家都处于和平状态。我们的纲领从不压迫，而总是援助。但我们对他人伸张正义的同时，也必须要求对我们伸张正义。
With us a treaty of peace means peace, and a treaty of amity means amity. We have made great contributions to the settlement of contentious differences in both Europe and Asia. But there is a very definite point beyond which we can not go. We can only help those who help themselves. Mindful of these limitations, the one great duty that stands out requires us to use our enormous powers to trim the balance of the world. 对我们来说，和平条约意味着和平，友好条约意味着友好。我们对欧洲和亚洲的争议分歧的解决作出了巨大贡献。但有一个非常明确的界限，我们不能超越。我们只能帮助那些自助的人。牢记这些限制，一个突出的重大责任要求我们运用我们巨大的力量来调整世界的平衡。
While we can look with a great deal of pleasure upon what we have done abroad, we must remember that our continued success in that direction depends upon what we do at home. Since its very outset, it has been found necessary to conduct our Government by means of political parties. That system would not have survived from generation to generation if it had not been fundamentally sound and provided the best instrumentalities for the most complete expression of the popular will. 当我们能够愉快地看待我们在国外所做的事情时，我们必须记住，我们在这方面持续的成功取决于我们在国内所做的事情。从最初开始，人们就发现有必要通过政党来治理我们的政府。这一制度如果不是从根本上健全，并为最充分地表达民意提供最好的工具，就不会代代相传。
It is not necessary to claim that it has always worked perfectly. It is enough to know that nothing better has been devised. 不必声称它一直运作完美。只要知道没有更好的制度被设计出来就足够了。
No one would deny that there should be full and free expression and an opportunity for independence of action within the party. There is no salvation in a narrow and bigoted partisanship. But if there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. 没有人会否认，在党内应该有充分自由的表达和独立行动的机会。狭隘偏执的党派偏见中找不到救赎。但如果要有负责任的政党政府，党的标签就必须不仅仅是一种获取职位的手段。
Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will. 除非那些以同一政党名义当选的人愿意承担足够的责任，表现出足够的忠诚和凝聚力，从而能够相互合作以支持党的纲领的广泛一般原则，否则选举只是一场闹剧，在投票站没有做出任何决定，也没有代表民意。
Common honesty and good faith with the people who support a party at the polls require that party, when it enters office, to assume the control of that portion of the Government to which it has been elected. Any other course is bad faith and a violation of the party pledges. 对在投票站支持一个政党的人民的诚实和善意，要求该党在执政时承担起它被选入的那部分政府的控制权。任何其他做法都是背信弃义，是对党的承诺的违反。
When the country has bestowed its confidence upon a party by making it a majority in the Congress, it has a right to expect such unity of action as will make the party majority an effective instrument of government. This Administration has come into power with a very clear and definite mandate from the people. The expression of the popular will in favor of maintaining our constitutional guarantees was overwhelming and decisive. 当国家通过使一个政党成为国会多数党而对其给予信任时，它有权期望这样的行动统一，使党的多数派成为有效的政府工具。本届政府带着人民非常明确和清晰的授权上台。民意表达支持维护我们的宪法保障，这是压倒性和决定性的。
There was a manifestation of such faith in the integrity of the courts that we can consider that issue rejected for some time to come. 对法院公正性的信仰表现得如此强烈，以至于我们可以认为这一问题在未来一段时间内已被否决。
Likewise, the policy of public ownership of railroads and certain electric utilities met with unmistakable defeat. The people declared that they wanted their rights to have not a political but a judicial determination, and their independence and freedom continued and supported by having the ownership and control of their property, not in the Government, but in their own hands. As they always do when they have a fair chance, the people demonstrated that they are sound and are determined to have a sound government. 同样，铁路和某些电力公用事业公有政策遭到明确失败。人民宣布，他们希望自己的权利不是由政治而是由司法来裁定，他们的独立和自由通过将财产的所有权和控制权掌握在自己手中而非政府手中来延续和支持。正如他们在有公平机会时总是做的那样，人民证明了他们是健全的，并决心拥有一个健全的政府。
When we turn from what was rejected to inquire what was accepted, the policy that stands out with the greatest clearness is that of economy in public expenditure with reduction and reform of taxation. The principle involved in this effort is that of conservation. The resources of this country are almost beyond computation. No mind can comprehend them. But the cost of our combined governments is likewise almost beyond definition. 当我们从被否决的转向探究被接受的，最清楚地突出的政策是公共支出节约以及减税和税制改革。这一努力所涉及的原则是节约。这个国家的资源几乎无法计算。没有头脑能够理解它们。但我们各级政府的成本同样几乎无法定义。
Not only those who are now making their tax returns, but those who meet the enhanced cost of existence in their monthly bills, know by hard experience what this great burden is and what it does. No matter what others may want, these people want a drastic economy. They are opposed to waste. They know that extravagance lengthens the hours and diminishes the rewards of their labor. I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. 不仅是那些现在正在填写纳税申报单的人，还有那些在每月账单中承受生存成本上升的人，都通过切身的痛苦经历深知这一负担有多重、意味着什么。不管别人想要什么，这些人都想要大幅度的节约。他们反对浪费。他们知道挥霍延长了他们的工作时间，减少了他们劳动的回报。我支持节约政策，不是因为我希望省钱，而是因为我希望救人。
The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form. 这个国家辛勤工作的男女是承担政府成本的人。我们随意浪费的每一美元都意味着他们的生活更加匮乏。我们谨慎节省的每一美元都意味着他们的生活更加丰盛。节约是理想主义最实际的形式。
If extravagance were not reflected in taxation, and through taxation both directly and indirectly injuriously affecting the people, it would not be of so much consequence. The wisest and soundest method of solving our tax problem is through economy. Fortunately, of all the great nations this country is best in a position to adopt that simple remedy. We do not any longer need war-time revenues. 如果挥霍没有反映在税收中，没有通过税收直接和间接地损害人民，它就不会有太大的后果。解决我们税收问题的最明智和最健全的方法是通过节约。幸运的是，在所有大国中，这个国家最有条件采取这一简单的补救措施。我们不再需要战时收入。
The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity. The property of the country belongs to the people of the country. Their title is absolute. 征收任何并非绝对必需、并非毫无疑问有助于公共福利的税收，只是一种合法化的盗窃。在这个共和国下，工业的回报属于赚取它们的人。唯一合宪的税收是满足公共必需的税收。国家的财产属于国家的人民。他们的所有权是绝对的。
They do not support any privileged class; they do not need to maintain great military forces; they ought not to be burdened with a great array of public employees. They are not required to make any contribution to Government expenditures except that which they voluntarily assess upon themselves through the action of their own representatives. Whenever taxes become burdensome a remedy can be applied by the people; but if they do not act for themselves, no one can be very successful in acting for them. 他们不支持任何特权阶级；他们不需要维持庞大的军事力量；他们不应被大量公职人员所累。除了他们通过自己代表的行动自愿向自己征收的之外，他们不需要对政府支出作出任何贡献。每当税收变得沉重时，人民可以采取补救措施；但如果他们不为自己采取行动，没有谁能成功地为他们采取行动。
The time is arriving when we can have further tax reduction, when, unless we wish to hamper the people in their right to earn a living, we must have tax reform. The method of raising revenue ought not to impede the transaction of business; it ought to encourage it. I am opposed to extremely high rates, because they produce little or no revenue, because they are bad for the country, and, finally, because they are wrong. 我们正迎来可以进一步减税的时候，除非我们希望妨碍人民谋生的权利，否则我们必须进行税制改革。筹集收入的方法不应阻碍商业交易；它应该鼓励交易。我反对极高的税率，因为它们产生很少或根本没有收入，因为它们对国家不利，最后，因为它们是错误的。
We can not finance the country, we can not improve social conditions, through any system of injustice, even if we attempt to inflict it upon the rich. Those who suffer the most harm will be the poor. This country believes in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that it is envious of those who are already prosperous. 我们不能通过任何不公正的制度来为国家融资，也不能改善社会状况，即使我们试图将其强加于富人。受伤害最大的将是穷人。这个国家相信繁荣。假设它嫉妒那些已经繁荣的人是荒谬的。
The wise and correct course to follow in taxation and all other economic legislation is not to destroy those who have already secured success but to create conditions under which every one will have a better chance to be successful. The verdict of the country has been given on this question. That verdict stands. We shall do well to heed it. 在税收和所有其他经济立法中应遵循的明智而正确的方针，不是摧毁那些已经取得成功的人，而是创造条件，使每个人都有更好的机会获得成功。国家在这个问题上已经作出了裁决。这一裁决成立。我们最好听从它。
These questions involve moral issues. We need not concern ourselves much about the rights of property if we will faithfully observe the rights of persons. Under our institutions their rights are supreme. It is not property but the right to hold property, both great and small, which our Constitution guarantees. 这些问题涉及道德问题。如果我们忠实遵守人的权利，就不必过多关心财产的权利。在我们的制度下，他们的权利是至高无上的。我们的宪法保证的不是财产，而是持有财产的权利，无论大小。
All owners of property are charged with a service. These rights and duties have been revealed, through the conscience of society, to have a divine sanction. The very stability of our society rests upon production and conservation. For individuals or for governments to waste and squander their resources is to deny these rights and disregard these obligations. The result of economic dissipation to a nation is always moral decay. 所有财产所有者都负有某种服务。这些权利和义务通过社会的良知被揭示出来，具有神圣的认可。我们社会的稳定恰恰建立在生产和节约之上。个人或政府浪费和挥霍其资源就是否定这些权利，无视这些义务。经济挥霍对一个国家来说总是导致道德衰败。
These policies of better international understandings, greater economy, and lower taxes have contributed largely to peaceful and prosperous industrial relations. Under the helpful influences of restrictive immigration and a protective tariff, employment is plentiful, the rate of pay is high, and wage earners are in a state of contentment seldom before seen. 这些更好的国际理解、更大的节约和更低的税收政策，在很大程度上促成了和平而繁荣的劳资关系。在限制性移民和保护性关税的有利影响下，就业充足，工资水平高，工薪阶层处于罕见的满足状态。
Our transportation systems have been gradually recovering and have been able to meet all the requirements of the service. Agriculture has been very slow in reviving, but the price of cereals at last indicates that the day of its deliverance is at hand. 我们的交通系统逐渐恢复，已经能够满足所有服务需求。农业恢复得很慢，但谷物的价格终于表明，它解脱的日子即将到来。
We are not without our problems, but our most important problem is not to secure new advantages but to maintain those which we already possess. Our system of government made up of three separate and independent departments, our divided sovereignty composed of Nation and State, the matchless wisdom that is enshrined in our Constitution, all these need constant effort and tireless vigilance for their protection and support. 我们并非没有问题，但我们最重要的问题不是获得新的优势，而是维护我们已拥有的优势。我们由三个独立部门组成的政府体制，我们由国家和州组成的主权划分，我们宪法中蕴含的无与伦比的智慧，所有这些都需要不断的努力和不倦的警惕来保护和支撑。
In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience to law. Under a despotism the law may be imposed upon the subject. He has no voice in its making, no influence in its administration, it does not represent him. Under a free government the citizen makes his own laws, chooses his own administrators, which do represent him. Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. 在共和国中，指导公民的第一条规则是遵守法律。在专制统治下，法律可以强加于臣民。他在立法中没有发言权，在行政中没有影响力，它不代表他。在自由政府下，公民制定自己的法律，选择自己的行政人员，这些人员代表他。那些希望自己的权利在宪法和法律下得到尊重的人，应该自己树立遵守宪法和法律的榜样。
While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, or servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle. 虽然可能有高智商的人有时违反法律，但野蛮人和有缺陷的人总是违反它。那些无视社会规则的人不是在展示高超的智慧，不是在促进自由和独立，不是在遵循文明的道路，而是在展示无知、奴役、野蛮的特征，踏上通往丛林的道路。
The essence of a republic is representative government. Our Congress represents the people and the states. In all legislative affairs it is the natural collaborator with the President. In spite of all the criticism which often falls to its lot, I do not hesitate to say that there is no more independent and effective legislative body in the world. It is, and should be, jealous of its prerogative. 共和国的本质是代议制政府。我们的国会代表人民和各州。在所有立法事务中，它是总统的天然合作者。尽管它经常受到批评，我毫不犹豫地说，世界上没有比它更独立有效的立法机构了。它是，并且应该是，对其特权的守护。
I welcome its cooperation, and expect to share with it not only the responsibility, but the credit, for our common effort to secure beneficial legislation. 我欢迎它的合作，并期望与它不仅分担责任，也分享我们共同争取有益立法的功劳。
These are some of the principles which America represents. We have not by any means put them fully into practice, but we have strongly signified our belief in them. The encouraging feature of our country is not that it has reached its destination, but that it has overwhelmingly expressed its determination to proceed in the right direction. 这些是美国所代表的一些原则。我们绝没有完全实践它们，但我们强烈表明了对它们的信念。我们国家令人鼓舞之处不在于它已经到达目的地，而在于它压倒性地表达了朝正确方向前进的决心。
It is true that we could, with profit, be less sectional and more national in our thought. It would be well if we could replace much that is only a false and ignorant prejudice with a true and enlightened pride of race. But the last election showed that appeals to class and nationality had little effect. We were all found loyal to a common citizenship. The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration. We can not permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free. 确实，我们可以受益于少一点地方主义，多一点国家主义的思想。如果我们能用真正开明的种族自豪感取代许多仅仅是虚假无知的偏见，那就好了。但上次选举表明，对阶级和民族性的呼吁几乎没有效果。我们都表现出对一个共同公民身份的忠诚。自由的基本准则是宽容。我们不能允许任何法律内外的调查，或对担任公职施加任何宗教测试。美国的心灵必须永远自由。
It is in such contemplations, my fellow countrymen, which are not exhaustive but only representative, that I find ample warrant for satisfaction and encouragement. We should not let the much that is to do obscure the much which has been done. The past and present show faith and hope and courage fully justified. 正是在这样的思考中，同胞们——这些并非详尽无遗，而只是具有代表性——我找到了充分理由感到满意和鼓舞。我们不应让待做的许多事情遮蔽已完成的许多事情。过去和现在表明，信念、希望和勇气是完全正当的。
Here stands our country, an example of tranquillity at home, a patron of tranquillity abroad. Here stands its Government, aware of its might but obedient to its conscience. Here it will continue to stand, seeking peace and prosperity, solicitous for the welfare of the wage earner, promoting enterprise, developing waterways and natural resources, attentive to the intuitive counsel of womanhood, encouraging education, desiring the advancement of religion, supporting the cause of justice and honor among the nations. 我们的国家屹立于此，是国内宁静的典范，是国外宁静的赞助者。它的政府屹立于此，知晓自己的力量但顺从自己的良知。它将继续屹立于此，寻求和平与繁荣，关心工薪阶层的福祉，促进企业，开发水道和自然资源，倾听女性的直觉忠告，鼓励教育，期望宗教的进步，支持各国之间正义和荣誉的事业。
America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions. The legions which she sends forth are armed, not with the sword, but with the cross. The higher state to which she seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God. 美国不寻求建立在鲜血和武力之上的世俗帝国。没有野心，没有诱惑，能引诱她想到对外统治。她派出的军团武装的不是刀剑，而是十字架。她寻求全人类效忠的更高境界不是来自人类，而是来自神。她不抱任何目的，只求配得上全能上帝的恩惠。