[Delivered in person at the Capitol] 【亲自在国会大厦发表】
Mr. Vice President, Mr. Chief Justice, fellow citizens: 副总统先生，首席大法官先生，同胞们：
I accept with humility the honor which the American people have conferred upon me. I accept it with a resolve to do all that I can for the welfare of this Nation and for the peace of the world. 我怀着谦卑之心接受美国人民授予我的荣誉。我接受这一荣誉，并决心尽我所能为这个国家的福祉和世界和平服务。
In performing the duties of my office, I need the help and the prayers of every one of you. I ask for your encouragement and for your support. The tasks we face are difficult. We can accomplish them only if we work together. 在履行我的职责时，我需要你们每个人的帮助和祈祷。我请求你们的鼓励和支持。我们面临的任务是艰巨的。只有共同努力，我们才能完成这些任务。
Each period of our national history has had its special challenges. Those that confront us now are as momentous as any in the past. Today marks the beginning not only of a new administration, but of a period that will be eventful, perhaps decisive, for us and for the world. 我国历史的每个时期都有其特殊的挑战。我们现在面临的挑战与过去任何时候一样重大。今天不仅标志着新一届政府的开始，也标志着一个对我们和世界来说将是多事之秋、也许是决定性的时期的开始。
It may be our lot to experience, and in a large measure bring about, a major turning point in the long history of the human race. The first half of this century has been marked by unprecedented and brutal attacks on the rights of man, and by the two most frightful wars in history. The supreme need of our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony. 我们的命运可能是经历并在很大程度上促成人类漫长历史中的一个重大转折点。本世纪上半叶以对人权前所未有的野蛮攻击以及历史上最可怕的两次战争为标志。我们这个时代的最高需要是人们学会在和平与和谐中共处。
The peoples of the earth face the future with grave uncertainty, composed almost equally of great hopes and great fears. In this time of doubt, they look to the United States as never before for good will, strength, and wise leadership. 世界各国人民怀着巨大的不确定性面对未来，这种不确定性几乎同等程度地由巨大的希望和巨大的恐惧构成。在这个疑虑的时刻，他们比以往任何时候都更期待联邦的善意、力量和明智的领导。
It is fitting, therefore, that we take this occasion to proclaim to the world the essential principles of the faith by which we live, and to declare our aims to all peoples. 因此，我们应当借此机会向世界宣布我们所信奉的基本信仰原则，并向所有人民宣布我们的目标。
The American people stand firm in the faith which has inspired this Nation from the beginning. We believe that all men have a right to equal justice under law and equal opportunity to share in the common good. We believe that all men have a right to freedom of thought and expression. We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. 美国人民坚定地坚持从一开始就激励这个国家的信仰。我们相信所有人都有权在法律面前享有平等的正义，并有平等的机会分享共同的利益。我们相信所有人都有权享有思想和表达的自由。我们相信所有人都是平等的，因为他们都是按照上帝的形象被创造的。
From this faith we will not be moved. 我们不会从这个信仰中动摇。
The American people desire, and are determined to work for, a world in which all nations and all peoples are free to govern themselves as they see fit, and to achieve a decent and satisfying life. Above all else, our people desire, and are determined to work for, peace on earth--a just and lasting peace--based on genuine agreement freely arrived at by equals. 美国人民渴望并决心为一个世界而努力，在这个世界里，所有国家和所有人民都可以自由地按照自己认为合适的方式治理自己，并实现体面和满意的生活。最重要的是，我们人民渴望并决心为世界和平而努力——一个基于平等者自由达成的真正协议的公正和持久的和平。
In the pursuit of these aims, the United States and other like-minded nations find themselves directly opposed by a regime with contrary aims and a totally different concept of life. 在追求这些目标的过程中，联邦和其他志同道合的国家发现自己直接面临一个目标相反、生活理念完全不同的政权。
That regime adheres to a false philosophy which purports to offer freedom, security, and greater opportunity to mankind. Misled by that philosophy, many peoples have sacrificed their liberties only to learn to their sorrow that deceit and mockery, poverty and tyranny, are their reward. 那个政权坚持一种虚假的哲学，声称要为人类提供自由、安全和更大的机会。许多人民被这种哲学误导，牺牲了自己的自由，结果悲痛地发现，欺骗、嘲弄、贫穷和暴政是他们的回报。
That false philosophy is communism. 那种虚假的哲学就是共产主义。
Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. 共产主义基于这样一种信念：人是如此软弱和不足，以至于无法自我治理，因此需要强大主人的统治。
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. 民主基于这样一种信念：人有道德和智力能力，以及不可剥夺的权利，能够以理性和正义自我治理。
Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as the chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think. 共产主义使个人遭受无合法理由的逮捕、未经审判的惩罚，并被当作国家的动产强迫劳动。它规定个人应该接受什么信息、应该创作什么艺术、应该追随什么领导人、应该思考什么思想。
Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom in the exercise of those abilities of his. 民主主张政府是为个人利益而建立的，负责保护个人的权利和行使这些能力的自由。
Communism maintains that social wrongs can be corrected only by violence. 共产主义认为社会弊端只能通过暴力来纠正。
Democracy has proved that social justice can be achieved through peaceful change. 民主已经证明社会正义可以通过和平变革来实现。
Communism holds that the world is so widely divided into opposing classes that war is inevitable. 共产主义认为世界被如此广泛地划分为对立的阶级，以至于战争是不可避免的。
Democracy holds that free nations can settle differences justly and maintain a lasting peace. 民主认为自由国家可以公正地解决分歧并维持持久和平。
These differences between communism and democracy do not concern the United States alone. People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship God. 共产主义和民主之间的这些差异不仅关系到联邦。世界各地的人民都逐渐意识到，所涉及的是物质福利、人类尊严以及信仰和崇拜上帝的权利。
I state these differences, not to draw issues of belief as such, but because the actions resulting from the Communist philosophy are a threat to the efforts of free nations to bring about world recovery and lasting peace. 我陈述这些差异，不是为了提出信仰问题本身，而是因为共产主义哲学导致的行动威胁到自由国家实现世界复苏和持久和平的努力。
Since the end of hostilities, the United States has invested its substance and its energy in a great constructive effort to restore peace, stability, and freedom to the world. 自敌对行动结束以来，联邦投入了大量资源和精力，为恢复世界和平、稳定与自由作出了巨大的建设性努力。
We have sought no territory. We have imposed our will on none. We have asked for no privileges we would not extend to others. 我们没有寻求任何领土。我们没有将自己的意志强加于任何人。我们没有要求任何我们不会给予他人的特权。
We have constantly and vigorously supported the United Nations and related agencies as a means of applying democratic principles to international relations. We have consistently advocated and relied upon peaceful settlement of disputes among nations. 我们一贯大力支持联合国及其相关机构，将其作为在国际关系中应用民主原则的手段。我们一贯倡导并依靠和平解决国家间争端。
We have made every effort to secure agreement on effective international control of our most powerful weapon, and we have worked steadily for the limitation and control of all armaments. 我们尽一切努力确保就我们最强大武器的有效国际控制达成协议，并稳步努力限制和控制所有军备。
We have encouraged, by precept and example, the expansion of world trade on a sound and fair basis. 我们通过言传身教，鼓励在合理和公平的基础上扩大世界贸易。
Almost a year ago, in company with 16 free nations of Europe, we launched the greatest cooperative economic program in history. The purpose of that unprecedented effort is to invigorate and strengthen democracy in Europe, so that the free people of that continent can resume their rightful place in the forefront of civilization and can contribute once more to the security and welfare of the world. 大约一年前，我们与16个欧洲自由国家一起启动了历史上最大的合作经济计划。这项前所未有的努力旨在振兴和加强欧洲的民主，使该大陆的自由人民能够重新占据文明前沿的应有位置，并再次为世界的安全和福祉作出贡献。
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us, that we need not have war--that we can have peace. 我们的努力给全人类带来了新的希望。我们击退了绝望和失败主义。我们挽救了一些国家免于失去自由。世界上数亿人现在同意我们的观点：我们不必有战争——我们可以有和平。
The initiative is ours. 主动权在我们手中。
We are moving on with other nations to build an even stronger structure of international order and justice. We shall have as our partners countries which, no longer solely concerned with the problem of national survival, are now working to improve the standards of living of all their people. We are ready to undertake new projects to strengthen a free world. 我们正在与其他国家一道，建设一个更强大的国际秩序和正义结构。我们的伙伴将是那些不再仅仅关注国家生存问题、正在努力改善全体人民生活水平的国家。我们准备开展新项目，以加强自由世界。
In the coming years, our program for peace and freedom will emphasize four major courses of action. 在未来几年里，我们的和平与自由计划将强调四大行动方针。
First, we will continue to give unfaltering support to the United Nations and related agencies, and we will continue to search for ways to strengthen their authority and increase their effectiveness. We believe that the United Nations will be strengthened by the new nations which are being formed in lands now advancing toward self-government under democratic principles. 第一，我们将继续坚定不移地支持联合国及其相关机构，并继续寻求加强其权威和提高其效力的方法。我们相信，随着现在正在民主原则下走向自治的土地上正在形成的新国家的加入，联合国将得到加强。
Second, we will continue our programs for world economic recovery. 第二，我们将继续我们的世界经济复苏计划。
This means, first of all, that we must keep our full weight behind the European recovery program. We are confident of the success of this major venture in world recovery. We believe that our partners in this effort will achieve the status of self-supporting nations once again. 这首先意味着我们必须全力支持欧洲复兴计划。我们对这项世界复苏的重大事业的成功充满信心。我们相信，我们在这项努力中的伙伴将再次实现自给自足的国家地位。
In addition, we must carry out our plans for reducing the barriers to world trade and increasing its volume. Economic recovery and peace itself depend on increased world trade. 此外，我们必须执行减少世界贸易壁垒和增加贸易量的计划。经济复苏和和平本身都取决于世界贸易的增长。
Third, we will strengthen freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression. 第三，我们将加强热爱自由的国家，使其免受侵略危险。
We are now working out with a number of countries a joint agreement designed to strengthen the security of the North Atlantic area. Such an agreement would take the form of a collective defense arrangement within the terms of the United Nations Charter. 我们现在正在与一些国家制定一项联合协议，旨在加强北大西洋地区的安全。这样的协议将采取联合国宪章规定范围内的集体防御安排形式。
We have already established such a defense pact for the Western Hemisphere by the treaty of Rio de Janeiro. 我们已经通过里约热内卢条约为西半球建立了这样的防御条约。
The primary purpose of these agreements is to provide unmistakable proof of the joint determination of the free countries to resist armed attack from any quarter. Every country participating in these arrangements must contribute all it can to the common defense. 这些协议的主要目的是提供明确的证据，证明自由国家共同决心抵抗来自任何方面的武装攻击。参与这些安排的每个国家都必须尽其所能为共同防御作出贡献。
If we can make it sufficiently clear, in advance, that any armed attack affecting our national security would be met with overwhelming force, the armed attack might never occur. 如果我们能够提前足够清楚地表明，任何影响我们国家安全的武装攻击都将遭到压倒性力量的回击，那么武装攻击可能永远不会发生。
I hope soon to send to the Senate a treaty respecting the North Atlantic security plan. 我希望尽快向参议院提交一项关于北大西洋安全计划的条约。
In addition, we will provide military advice and equipment to free nations which will cooperate with us in the maintenance of peace and security. 此外，我们将向将与我们合作维护和平与安全的自由国家提供军事建议和装备。
Fourth, we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. 第四，我们必须着手实施一项大胆的新计划，使我们的科学进步和工业进步成果能够用于改善和发展不发达地区。
More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous areas. 世界上超过一半的人口生活在接近悲惨的条件下。他们的食物不足。他们是疾病的受害者。他们的经济生活原始而停滞。他们的贫困对他们自己和更繁荣的地区都是一种障碍和威胁。
For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve suffering of these people. 人类有史以来第一次拥有缓解这些人民苦难的知识和技能。
The United States is pre-eminent among nations in the development of industrial and scientific techniques. The material resources which we can afford to use for assistance of other peoples are limited. But our imponderable resources in technical knowledge are constantly growing and are inexhaustible. 美利坚合众国在工业和科学技术的发展方面在各国中处于领先地位。我们可以用来援助其他人民的物质资源是有限的。但我们在技术知识方面的无形资源在不断增长且取之不尽。
I believe that we should make available to peace-loving peoples the benefits of our store of technical knowledge in order to help them realize their aspirations for a better life. And, in cooperation with other nations, we should foster capital investment in areas needing development. 我相信，我们应该向热爱和平的人民提供我们的技术知识储备，以帮助他们实现对更好生活的渴望。并且，与其他国家合作，我们应该促进在需要发展的地区的资本投资。
Our aim should be to help the free peoples of the world, through their own efforts, to produce more food, more clothing, more materials for housing, and more mechanical power to lighten their burdens. 我们的目标应该是帮助世界上的自由人民通过自己的努力生产更多的食物、更多的衣服、更多的住房材料和更多的机械动力，以减轻他们的负担。
We invite other countries to pool their technological resources in this undertaking. Their contributions will be warmly welcomed. This should be a cooperative enterprise in which all nations work together through the United Nations and its specialized agencies whenever practicable. It must be a worldwide effort for the achievement of peace, plenty, and freedom. 我们邀请其他国家在这项事业中汇集它们的技术资源。它们的贡献将受到热烈欢迎。这应该是一项合作事业，所有国家在可行的情况下通过联合国及其专门机构共同努力。这必须是一项实现和平、富足和自由的全球努力。
With the cooperation of business, private capital, agriculture, and labor in this country, this program can greatly increase the industrial activity in other nations and can raise substantially their standards of living. 在我国企业、私人资本、农业和劳工的合作下，这个计划可以大大增加其他国家的工业活动，并大幅提高它们的生活水平。
Such new economic developments must be devised and controlled to the benefit of the peoples of the areas in which they are established. Guarantees to the investor must be balanced by guarantees in the interest of the people whose resources and whose labor go into these developments. 这种新的经济发展必须以有利于建立这些发展的地区人民的方式来设计和控制。对投资者的保障必须与为投入这些发展的资源和劳动力的人民利益的保障相平衡。
The old imperialism--exploitation for foreign profit--has no place in our plans. What we envisage is a program of development based on the concepts of democratic fair-dealing. 旧帝国主义——为外国利润而剥削——在我们的计划中没有位置。我们设想的是一个基于民主公平交易概念的发展计划。
All countries, including our own, will greatly benefit from a constructive program for the better use of the world's human and natural resources. Experience shows that our commerce with other countries expands as they progress industrially and economically. 所有国家，包括我们自己，都将从一个更好地利用世界人力和自然资源的建设性计划中受益匪浅。经验表明，随着其他国家在工业和经济上的进步，我们与它们的贸易会扩大。
Greater production is the key to prosperity and peace. And the key to greater production is a wider and more vigorous application of modern scientific and technical knowledge. 更大的生产是繁荣与和平的关键。而更大生产的关键是更广泛、更有力地应用现代科学和技术知识。
Only by helping the least fortunate of its members to help themselves can the human family achieve the decent, satisfying life that is the right of all people. 只有通过帮助人类大家庭中最不幸的成员自助，人类大家庭才能实现体面、满意的生活，这是所有人的权利。
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies--hunger, misery, and despair. 只有民主才能提供激发世界各国人民采取胜利行动的生命力，不仅反对他们的人类压迫者，而且反对他们古老的敌人——饥饿、苦难和绝望。
On the basis of these four major courses of action we hope to help create the conditions that will lead eventually to personal freedom and happiness for all mankind. 基于这四大行动方针，我们希望帮助创造条件，最终实现全人类的个人自由和幸福。
If we are to be successful in carrying out these policies, it is clear that we must have continued prosperity in this country and we must keep ourselves strong. 如果我们要成功执行这些政策，显然我们必须在这个国家继续保持繁荣，并且必须保持自身的强大。
Slowly but surely we are weaving a world fabric of international security and growing prosperity. 我们正在缓慢但肯定地编织一个国际安全和日益繁荣的世界结构。
We are aided by all who wish to live in freedom from fear--even by those who live today in fear under their own governments. 所有希望在无恐惧中生活的人——即使是那些今天在自己政府统治下生活在恐惧中的人——都在帮助我们。
We are aided by all who want relief from lies and propaganda--those who desire truth and sincerity. 所有希望摆脱谎言和宣传的人——那些渴望真理和真诚的人——都在帮助我们。
We are aided by all who desire self-government and a voice in deciding their own affairs. 所有渴望自治和有权决定自己事务的人——都在帮助我们。
We are aided by all who long for economic security--for the security and abundance that men in free societies can enjoy. 所有渴望经济安全的人——渴望自由社会中的人们可以享受的安全和富足——都在帮助我们。
We are aided by all who desire freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to live their own lives for useful ends. 所有渴望言论自由、宗教自由和自由地为有益目的生活的人——都在帮助我们。
Our allies are the millions who hunger and thirst after righteousness. 我们的盟友是数百万渴望正义的人。
In due time, as our stability becomes manifest, as more and more nations come to know the benefits of democracy and to participate in growing abundance, I believe that those countries which now oppose us will abandon their delusions and join with the free nations of the world in a just settlement of international differences. 随着时间的推移，随着我们的稳定变得明显，随着越来越多的国家了解民主的好处并参与日益增长的繁荣，我相信那些现在反对我们的国家将放弃他们的幻想，与世界上的自由国家一起公正解决国际分歧。
Events have brought our American democracy to new influence and new responsibilities. They will test our courage, our devotion to duty, and our concept of liberty. 事件将我们的美国民主带到了新的影响力和新的责任面前。它们将考验我们的勇气、我们对职责的奉献以及我们对自由的理解。
But I say to all men, what we have achieved in liberty, we will surpass in greater liberty. 但我要对所有人说，我们在自由中所取得的成就，将在更大的自由中超越。
Steadfast in our faith in the Almighty, we will advance toward a world where man's freedom is secure. 坚定地信仰全能的上帝，我们将走向一个人类自由得到保障的世界。
To that end we will devote our strength, our resources, and our firmness of resolve. With God's help, the future of mankind will be assured in a world of justice, harmony, and peace. 为此，我们将奉献我们的力量、我们的资源和我们坚定的决心。在上帝的帮助下，人类的未来将在一个正义、和谐与和平的世界中得到保障。