My good friend and great Republican, Dick Nixon, and your charming wife, Pat; my running mate, that wonderful Republican who has served us so well for so long, Bill Miller and his wife, Stephanie; to Thurston Morton who's done such a commendable job in chairmaning this Convention; to Mr. Herbert Hoover, who I hope is watching; and to that -- that great American and his wife, General and Mrs. Eisenhower; to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow Republicans here assembled, and Americans across this great Nation. 我亲爱的朋友、伟大的共和党人迪克·尼克松和您迷人的妻子帕特；我的竞选搭档、那位长期为我们出色服务的伟大共和党人比尔·米勒和他的妻子斯蒂芬妮；对在主持这次大会中表现出色的瑟斯顿·莫顿；对我希望正在观看的赫伯特·胡佛先生；以及那位伟大的美国人及其妻子艾森豪威尔将军和夫人；对我自己的妻子、我的家人，以及所有在此聚集的共和党同胞，还有这个伟大国家的美国人民。
From this moment, united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man. Together -- Together we will win. 从这一刻起，团结一心、坚定不移，我们将共同前进，致力于实现全人类最终的、不可否认的伟大。我们将一起——一起赢得胜利。
I accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. I accept, too, the responsibility that goes with it, and I seek your continued help and your continued guidance. My fellow Republicans, our cause is too great for any man to feel worthy of it. Our task would be too great for any man, did he not have with him the hearts and the hands of this great Republican Party, and I promise you tonight that every fiber of my being is consecrated to our cause; that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to it by enthusiasm, by devotion, and plain hard work. 我怀着深深的谦卑接受你们的提名。我也接受随之而来的责任，并寻求你们持续的帮助和指导。我的共和党同胞们，我们的事业太伟大了，没有人能感到自己配得上它。我们的任务对任何人来说都太艰巨了，除非他拥有这个伟大共和党的心声和力量，今晚我向你们承诺，我身体的每一根纤维都奉献给我们的事业；在这场斗争中，热情、奉献和纯粹的努力不会缺少任何东西。
In this world no person, no Party can guarantee anything, but what we can do and what we shall do is to deserve victory, and victory will be ours. 在这个世界上，没有人、没有政党能够保证任何事情，但我们能做的、我们将要做的，是值得胜利的，而胜利将属于我们。
The good Lord raised this mighty Republican -- Republic to be a home for the brave and to flourish as the land of the free -- not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism, not to cringe before the bullying of communism. 上帝造就了这个伟大的共和国，让它成为勇敢者的家园，并作为自由之地繁荣发展——不是在集体主义的沼泽中停滞不前，不是在共产主义的欺凌面前畏缩。
Now, my fellow Americans, the tide has been running against freedom. Our people have followed false prophets. We must, and we shall, return to proven ways -- not because they are old, but because they are true. We must, and we shall, set the tides running again in the cause of freedom. 现在，我的美国同胞们，潮流一直在反对自由。我们的人民追随了虚假的先知。我们必须，而且我们必将，回到被证明的道路上——不是因为它们古老，而是因为它们正确。我们必须，而且我们必将，再次让潮流在自由的事业中流动。
And this party, with its every action, every word, every breath, and every heartbeat, has but a single resolve, and that is freedom -- freedom made orderly for this Nation by our constitutional government; freedom under a government limited by the laws of nature and of nature's God; freedom balanced so that order lacking liberty will not become the slavery of the prison cell; balanced so that liberty lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle. 这个政党，以其每一个行动、每一句话、每一次呼吸和每一次心跳，只有一个决心，那就是自由——通过我们的宪法政府为这个国家带来有序的自由；在受自然法则和自然之神法则限制的政府下的自由；平衡的自由，缺少自由的秩序不会成为监狱牢房的奴役；平衡的自由，缺少秩序的自由不会成为暴民和丛林的放纵。
Now, we Americans understand freedom. We have earned it; we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This Nation and its people are freedom's model in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. But, ladies and gentlemen, first we must renew freedom's mission in our own hearts and in our own homes. 现在，我们美国人理解自由。我们赢得了自由；我们为自由而生活，我们为自由而献身。这个国家及其人民是一个探索世界中自由的典范。我们可以在一个怀疑的世界中成为自由的传教士。但是，女士们先生们，首先我们必须在我们自己的心中和家庭中重新点燃自由的使命。
During four futile years, the administration which we shall replace has -- has distorted and lost that vision. It has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom, but it has failed and failed and failed in the works of freedom. 在徒劳的四年里，我们即将取代的政府——扭曲并失去了这一愿景。它说了又说，谈论自由的话语，但在自由的实践中一次又一次地失败。
Now, failures cement the wall of shame in Berlin. Failures blot the sands of shame at the Bay of Pigs. Failures mark the slow death of freedom in Laos. Failures infest the jungles of Vietnam. 现在，失败在柏林筑起了耻辱之墙。失败在猪湾玷污了耻辱之沙。失败标志着老挝自由的缓慢死亡。失败在越南的丛林中滋生。
And failures haunt the houses of our once great alliances and undermine the greatest bulwark ever erected by free nations -- the NATO community. Failures proclaim lost leadership, obscure purpose, weakening will, and the risk of inciting our sworn enemies to new aggressions and to new excesses. 失败困扰着我们曾经伟大的联盟，并破坏了自由国家建立的最伟大堡垒——北约共同体。失败宣告了失去的领导、模糊的目标、削弱的意志，以及煽动我们宣誓敌人发动新侵略和新暴行的风险。
And because of this administration we are tonight a world divided; we are a Nation becalmed. We have lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of individual creativity. We are plodding along at a pace set by centralized planning, red tape, rules without responsibility, and regimentation without recourse. 由于这个政府，我们今晚是一个分裂的世界；我们是一个停滞不前的国家。我们失去了多样性的轻快步伐和个人创造力的天才。我们正以中央计划、官僚主义、没有责任的规则和没有追索权的管制所设定的步伐缓慢前进。
Rather than useful jobs in our country, our people have been offered bureaucratic "make work"; rather than moral leadership, they have been given bread and circuses. They have been given spectacles, and, yes, they've even been given scandals. 我们的人民没有得到我国有用的工作，而是得到了官僚主义的"创造就业"；没有得到道德领导，而是得到了面包和马戏。他们得到了奇观，是的，他们甚至得到了丑闻。
Tonight, there is violence in our streets, corruption in our highest offices, aimlessness amongst our youth, anxiety among our elders, and there's a virtual despair among the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning of their lives. And where examples of morality should be set, the opposite is seen. Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. 今晚，我们的街道上有暴力，我们最高职位上有腐败，我们的青年中有迷茫，我们的长辈中有焦虑，许多超越物质成功寻求生活内在意义的人几乎陷入绝望。在应该树立道德榜样的地方，看到的却是相反的情况。追求巨大财富或权力的小人物，常常将甚至最高级别的公共服务变成纯粹的个人机会。
Now, certainly, simple honesty is not too much to demand of men in government. We find it in most. Republicans demand it from everyone. They demand it from everyone no matter how exalted or protected his position might be. 当然，简单的诚实对政府中的人来说要求并不太高。我们在大多数人中都能找到。共和党人要求每个人都做到。无论他的职位多么崇高或受保护，他们都要求每个人做到。
Now the -- the growing menace in our country tonight, to personal safety, to life, to limb and property, in homes, in churches, on the playgrounds, and places of business, particularly in our great cities, is the mounting concern, or should be, of every thoughtful citizen in the United States. 现在，我们国家今晚日益增长的威胁——对个人安全、生命、肢体和财产的威胁，在家庭、教堂、游乐场和商业场所，特别是在我们的大城市中——应该是美国每个有思想的公民日益关注的问题。
Security from domestic violence, no less than from foreign aggression, is the most elementary and fundamental purpose of any government, and a government that cannot fulfill this purpose is one that cannot long command the loyalty of its citizens. 免受国内暴力的安全，不亚于免受外国侵略的安全，是任何政府最基本和最根本的目的，一个无法实现这一目的的政府是一个无法长久赢得公民忠诚的政府。
History shows us -- it demonstrates that nothing, nothing prepares the way for tyranny more than the failure of public officials to keep the streets safe from bullies and marauders. 历史告诉我们——它证明了，没有什么比公职人员无法保持街道安全免受恶霸和掠夺者侵害更能为暴政铺路的了。
Now, we Republicans see all this as more, much more, than the result of mere political differences or mere political mistakes. We see this as the result of a fundamentally and absolutely wrong view of man, his nature, and his destiny. Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberties in return for relieving you of yours, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for Divine Will. 现在，我们共和党人认为这不仅仅是单纯的政治分歧或单纯的政治错误的结果。我们认为这是对人的本质、天性和命运的一种根本和绝对错误观点的结果。那些试图为你们生活的人，那些用免除你们责任来换取你们自由的人，那些抬高国家、贬低公民的人，最终必然会看到一个尘世权力可以取代神意的世界。
And this Nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and upon the acceptance of God as the author of freedom. 而这个国家正是建立在拒绝这种观念和接受上帝作为自由创造者的基础上的。
Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. They -- and let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. 那些寻求绝对权力的人，即使他们寻求权力是为了做他们认为是好事，也只是要求有权在地球上强制执行他们自己版本的天堂。他们——让我提醒你们，他们正是那些总是创造最地狱般暴政的人。绝对权力确实会腐败，那些寻求它的人必须受到怀疑和反对。
Their mistaken course stems from false notions, ladies and gentlemen, of equality. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. 他们错误的道路源于错误的观念，女士们先生们，关于平等的错误观念。正确理解的平等，正如我们的开国元勋所理解的那样，通向自由和创造性差异的解放。错误理解的平等，正如在我们这个时代如此悲惨地表现出来的那样，首先导致一致性，然后导致专制。
Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which -- which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people. And, so help us God, that is exactly what a Republican President will do with the help of a Republican Congress. 共和党同胞们，抵制强加这种一致性并施加这种专制的私人或公共权力集中，是共和党的事业。确保权力掌握在人民手中，是共和党的事业。所以上帝保佑我们，在共和党国会的帮助下，共和党总统将恰恰做到这一点。
It is further the cause of Republicanism to restore a clear understanding of the tyranny of man over man in the world at large. It is our cause to dispel the foggy thinking which avoids hard decisions in the delusion that a world of conflict will somehow mysteriously resolve itself into a world of harmony, if we just don't rock the boat or irritate the forces of aggression -- and this is hogwash. 提醒我们自己和世界，在更大范围内恢复对人对人暴政的清晰认识，这进一步是共和党的事业。我们的事业是驱散模糊的思维，这种思维在幻想中避免艰难的决定，认为一个冲突的世界会神秘地自行解决为一个和谐的世界，只要我们不惹麻烦或激怒侵略势力——这简直是胡说八道。
It is further the cause of Republicanism to remind ourselves, and the world, that only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can keep the peace. 提醒我们自己和世界，只有强者才能保持自由，只有强者才能维护和平，这进一步是共和党的事业。
Now, I needn't remind you, or my fellow Americans regardless of party, that Republicans have shouldered this hard responsibility and marched in this cause before. It was Republican leadership under Dwight Eisenhower that kept the peace, and passed along to this administration the mightiest arsenal for defense the world has ever known. 现在，我不必提醒你们，或者无论党派如何的我的美国同胞们，共和党人以前曾承担过这一艰巨的责任并在这一事业中前进。正是德怀特·艾森豪威尔领导下的共和党保持了和平，并将世界上有史以来最强大的防御武库传给了这个政府。
And I needn't remind you that it was the strength and the unbelievable will of the Eisenhower years that kept the peace by using our strength, by using it in the Formosa Straits and in Lebanon and by showing it courageously at all times. 我不必提醒你们，正是艾森豪威尔时代的力量和难以置信的意志，通过使用我们的力量，在台湾海峡和黎巴嫩使用力量，并在所有时候勇敢地展示力量，保持了和平。
It was during those Republican years that the thrust of Communist imperialism was blunted. It was during those years of Republican leadership that this world moved closer, not to war, but closer to peace, than at any other time in the last three decades. 正是在那些共和党年代，共产主义帝国主义的推进被遏制。正是在那些共和党领导的年代，这个世界比过去三十年来的任何时候都更接近和平，而不是战争。
And I needn't remind you -- but I will -- that it's been during Democratic years that our strength to deter war has stood still, and even gone into a planned decline. It has been during Democratic years that we have weakly stumbled into conflict, timidly refusing to draw our own lines against aggression, deceitfully refusing to tell even our people of our full participation, and tragically, letting our finest men die on battlefields, unmarked by purpose, unmarked by pride or the prospect of victory. 我不必提醒你们——但我会——正是在民主党年代，我们威慑战争的力量停滞不前，甚至有计划地下降。正是在民主党年代，我们软弱地陷入冲突，胆怯地拒绝划定我们自己的反侵略界限，欺骗性地拒绝告诉我们的人民我们的全面参与，悲惨地让我们最优秀的人在战场上死去，没有目标、没有骄傲或胜利的前景。
Yesterday, it was Korea. Tonight, it is Vietnam. Make no bones of this. Don't try to sweep this under the rug. We are at war in Vietnam. And yet the President, who is the Commander-in-Chief of our forces, refuses to say -- refuses to say, mind you, whether or not the objective over there is victory. And his Secretary of Defense continues to mislead and misinform the American people, and enough of it has gone by. 昨天是朝鲜。今晚是越南。对此不要含糊其辞。不要试图掩盖。我们在越南处于战争状态。然而，作为我们军队总司令的总统，拒绝说——请注意，拒绝说——那边的目标是否是胜利。而他的国防部长继续误导和误导美国人民，这种情况已经够多了。
And I needn't remind you -- but I will -- it has been during Democratic years that a billion persons were cast into Communist captivity and their fate cynically sealed. 我不必提醒你们——但我会——正是在民主党年代，十亿人陷入共产主义的囚禁，他们的命运被愤世嫉俗地决定。
Today -- Today in our beloved country we have an administration which seems eager to deal with communism in every coin known -- from gold to wheat, from consulates to confidences, and even human freedom itself. 今天——今天在我们亲爱的国家，我们有一个政府，它似乎渴望用已知的每一种货币与共产主义打交道——从黄金到小麦，从领事馆到机密，甚至人类自由本身。
Now the Republican cause demands that we brand communism as the principal disturber of peace in the world today. Indeed, we should brand it as the only significant disturber of the peace, and we must make clear that until its goals of conquest are absolutely renounced and its relations with all nations tempered, communism and the governments it now controls are enemies of every man on earth who is or wants to be free. 现在，共和党事业要求我们将共产主义标记为当今世界和平的主要破坏者。事实上，我们应该将其标记为唯一重要的和平破坏者，我们必须明确表示，在其征服目标被绝对放弃及其与所有国家的关系得到缓和之前，共产主义及其现在控制的政府是地球上每个自由或想要自由的人的敌人。
Now, we here in America can keep the peace only if we remain vigilant and only if we remain strong. Only if we keep our eyes open and keep our guard up can we prevent war. And I want to make this abundantly clear: I don't intend to let peace or freedom be torn from our grasp because of lack of strength or lack of will -- and that I promise you, Americans. 现在，我们在美国只有保持警惕和强大才能维护和平。只有保持警惕和强大，我们才能防止战争。我想非常清楚地表明：我不打算让和平或自由因为缺乏力量或缺乏意志而从我们手中被夺走——这是我对你们的承诺，美国人。
I believe that we must look beyond the defense of freedom today to its extension tomorrow. I believe that the communism which boasts it will bury us will, instead, give way to the forces of freedom. And I can see in the distant and yet recognizable future the outlines of a world worthy of our dedication, our every risk, our every effort, our every sacrifice along the way. 我相信我们必须超越今天对自由的防御，展望明天对自由的扩展。我相信吹嘘将埋葬我们的共产主义将让位于自由的力量。我可以在遥远但可识别的未来看到一个值得我们奉献、我们所有风险、我们所有努力和我们沿途所有牺牲的世界的轮廓。
Yes, a world that will redeem the suffering of those who will be liberated from tyranny. I can see -- and I suggest that all thoughtful men must contemplate -- the flowering of an Atlantic civilization, the whole of Europe reunified and freed, trading openly across its borders, communicating openly across the world. 是的，一个将拯救那些将从暴政中解放出来的人痛苦的世界。我可以看到——我建议所有有思想的人都必须思考——大西洋文明的繁荣，整个欧洲重新统一和自由，跨越边界开放贸易，跨越世界开放交流。
Now, this is a goal far, far more meaningful than a moon shot. 现在，这是一个比登月更有意义的目标。
It's a -- It's a truly inspiring goal for all free men to set for themselves during the latter half of the twentieth century. 这是一个——这是一个在二十世纪后半叶所有自由人都应该为自己设定的真正鼓舞人心的目标。
I can also see -- and all free men must thrill to -- the events of this Atlantic civilization joined by its great ocean highway to the United States. What a destiny! What a destiny can be ours to stand as a great central pillar linking Europe, the Americas, and the venerable and vital peoples and cultures of the Pacific. 我也可以看到——所有自由人都必须为之心动——这个大西洋文明通过其伟大的海洋高速公路与美国连接起来。多么伟大的命运！我们可以站在连接欧洲、美洲和太平洋古老而充满活力的民族和文化的伟大中央支柱上。
I can see a day when all the Americas, North and South, will be linked in a mighty system, a system in which the errors and misunderstandings of the past will be submerged one by one in a rising tide of prosperity and interdependence. We know that the misunderstandings of centuries are not to be wiped away in a day or wiped away in an hour. But we pledge, we pledge that human sympathy -- what our neighbors to the South call an attitude of "simpático" -- no less than enlightened self-interest will be our guide. 我可以看到一天，所有美洲，北美和南美，将连接在一个强大的体系中，在这个体系中，过去的错误和误解将在繁荣和相互依存的浪潮中一个接一个地被淹没。我们知道，几个世纪的误解不是一天或一小时就能消除的。但我们承诺，我们承诺人类的同情——我们南方的邻居称之为"simpático"的态度——以及开明的自身利益将成为我们的指南。
And I can see this Atlantic civilization galvanizing and guiding emergent nations everywhere. 我可以看到这个大西洋文明激励和引导各地新兴国家。
Now I know this freedom is not the fruit of every soil. I know that our own freedom was achieved through centuries, by unremitting efforts of brave and wise men. And I know that the road to freedom is a long and a challenging road. And I know also that some men may walk away from it, that some men resist challenge, accepting the false security of governmental paternalism. 现在我知道自由不是每一片土壤的果实。我知道我们自己的自由是通过几个世纪勇敢和明智的人的不懈努力实现的。我知道通往自由的道路是漫长而具有挑战性的。我也知道有些人可能会背离它，有些人抗拒挑战，接受政府家长式作风的虚假安全。
And I -- And I pledge that the America I envision in the years ahead will extend its hand in health, in teaching and in cultivation, so that all new nations will be at least encouraged -- encouraged! -- to go our way, so that they will not wander down the dark alleys of tyranny or the dead-end streets of collectivism. 我——我承诺，我设想的未来美国将在健康、教育和培养方面伸出援手，以便所有新国家至少会被鼓励——鼓励！——走我们的道路，以便他们不会徘徊在暴政的黑暗小巷或集体主义的死胡同中。
My fellow Republicans, we do no man a service by hiding freedom's light under a bushel of mistaken humility. 我的共和党同胞们，把自由的光芒藏在谦逊的谷壳下对任何人都没有好处。
I seek an America proud of its past, proud of its ways, proud of its dreams, and determined actively to proclaim them. But our example to the world must, like charity, begin at home. 我寻求一个为自己的过去感到自豪、为自己的方式感到自豪、为自己的梦想感到自豪，并决心积极宣扬它们的美国。但我们对世界的榜样必须像慈善一样从家里开始。
In our vision of a good and decent future, free and peaceful, there must be room, room for deliberation of the energy and the talent of the individual; otherwise our vision is blind at the outset. 在我们对一个美好、体面、自由和平的未来的愿景中，必须有空间，有审议个人能量和才能的空间；否则我们的愿景从一开始就是盲目的。
We must assure a society here which, while never abandoning the needy or forsaking the helpless, nurtures incentives and opportunities for the creative and the productive. We must know the whole good is the product of many single contributions. 我们必须在这里确保一个社会，这个社会在永远不放弃有需要的人或抛弃无助的人的同时，培育创造性和生产性的激励和机会。我们必须知道整体的美好是许多个人贡献的产物。
And I cherish a day when our children once again will restore as heroes the sort of men and women who, unafraid and undaunted, pursue the truth, strive to cure disease, subdue and make fruitful our natural environment and produce the inventive engines of production, science, and technology. 我珍视有一天，我们的孩子将再次把那些无所畏惧、不屈不挠地追求真理、努力治愈疾病、征服并使我们的自然环境富有成效、生产生产、科学和技术的发明引擎的人视为英雄。
This Nation, whose creative people have enhanced this entire span of history, should again thrive upon the greatness of all those things which we, we as individual citizens, can and should do. And during Republican years, this again will be a nation of men and women, of families proud of their role, jealous of their responsibilities, unlimited in their aspirations -- a Nation where all who can will be self-reliant. 这个国家，其富有创造力的人民增强了整个历史进程，应该再次在我们作为个体公民可以并且应该做的所有伟大事情上蓬勃发展。在共和党年代，这将再次成为一个男人和女人的国家，一个为自己的角色感到自豪、珍视自己责任、志向无限的家庭的国家——一个所有有能力的人都将自力更生的国家。
We Republicans see in our constitutional form of government the great framework which assures the orderly but dynamic fulfillment of the whole man, and we see the whole man as the great reason for instituting orderly government in the first place. 我们共和党人在我们的宪法形式的政府中看到了确保全人类有序但充满活力实现的伟大框架，我们将全人类视为首先建立有序政府的伟大理由。
We see -- We see in private property and an economy based upon and fostering private property, the one way to make government a durable ally of the whole man, rather than his determined enemy. 我们看到——我们在私有财产和基于并促进私有财产的经济中看到，使政府成为全人类持久盟友而非其坚定敌人的唯一方式。
We see in the sanctity of private property the only durable foundation for constitutional government in a free society. 我们在私有财产的神圣性中看到自由社会中宪政政府的唯一持久基础。
And -- And beyond that, we see, in cherished diversity of ways, diversity of thoughts, of motives and accomplishments. 而且——除此之外，我们在珍视的方式多样性、思想多样性、动机和成就多样性中看到。
We don't seek to lead anyone's life for him. We only seek -- only seek to secure his rights, guarantee him opportunity -- guarantee him opportunity to strive, with government performing only those needed and constitutionally sanctioned tasks which cannot otherwise be performed. 我们不寻求为任何人的生活引路。我们只寻求——只寻求保障他的权利，保证他努力的机会——保证他努力的机会，政府只履行那些需要的和宪法授权的、否则无法履行的任务。
We Republicans seek a government that attends to its inherent responsibilities of maintaining a stable monetary and fiscal climate, encouraging a free and a competitive economy and enforcing law and order. Thus, do we seek inventiveness, diversity, and creative difference within a stable order, for we Republicans define government's role where needed at many, many levels -- preferably, though, the one closest to the people involved. 我们共和党人寻求一个关注其固有责任的政府，即维持稳定的货币和财政环境，鼓励自由和竞争的经济，并维护法律和秩序。因此，我们寻求在稳定秩序内的创造性、多样性和创造性差异，因为我们共和党人在许多层面——尽管最好是最接近所涉及人民的层面——定义政府的角色。
Our towns and our cities, then our counties, then our states, then our regional compacts -- and only then, the national government. That, let me remind you, is the ladder of liberty, built by decentralized power. On it also we must have balance between the branches of government at every level. 我们的城镇和城市，然后是我们的县，然后是我们的州，然后是我们的地区契约——最后才是国家政府。让我提醒你们，这是自由的阶梯，由分散的权力构建而成。在这之上，我们还必须在各级政府部门之间保持平衡。
Balance, diversity, creative difference: These are the elements of the Republican equation. Republicans agree -- Republicans agree heartily to disagree on many, many of their applications, but we have never disagreed on the basic fundamental issues of why you and I are Republicans. 平衡、多样性、创造性差异：这些是共和党等式的要素。共和党人同意——共和党人衷心同意在许多应用上存在分歧，但我们在你们和我成为共和党人的基本根本问题上从未有过分歧。
This is a Party. This Republican Party is a Party for free men, not for blind followers, and not for conformists. 这是一个政党。这个共和党是一个为自由人服务的政党，不是为盲目的追随者服务，也不是为顺从者服务。
In fact, in 1858 Abraham Lincoln said this of the Republican party -- and I quote him, because he probably could have said it during the last week or so: "It was composed of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements" -- end of the quote -- in 1858. 事实上，1858年亚伯拉罕·林肯这样评价共和党——我引用他的话，因为他可能在上周左右说过："它由奇怪、不和谐甚至敌对的元素组成"——引用结束——1858年。
Yet -- Yet all of these elements agreed on one paramount objective: To arrest the progress of slavery, and place it in the course of ultimate extinction. 然而——然而所有这些元素都同意一个最重要的目标：阻止奴隶制的进展，并将其置于最终灭绝的进程中。
Today, as then, but more urgently and more broadly than then, the task of preserving and enlarging freedom at home and of safeguarding it from the forces of tyranny abroad is great enough to challenge all our resources and to require all our strength. 今天，和那时一样，但比那时更紧迫、更广泛，在国内维护和扩大自由以及在国外保护自由免受暴政力量侵害的任务足够伟大，足以挑战我们所有的资源并需要我们所有的力量。
Anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome. Those who do not care for our cause, we don't expect to enter our ranks in any case. And -- And let our Republicanism, so focused and so dedicated, not be made fuzzy and futile by unthinking and stupid labels. 任何真诚加入我们的人，我们都欢迎。那些不关心我们事业的人，无论如何我们不期望他们加入我们的行列。而且——让我们的共和党主义如此专注和坚定，不要被不假思索和愚蠢的标签弄得模糊和徒劳。
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. 我要提醒你们，为自由辩护的极端主义不是罪恶。
And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. 让我也提醒你们，追求正义的温和主义不是美德。
The -- The beauty of the very system we Republicans are pledged to restore and revitalize, the beauty of this Federal system of ours is in its reconciliation of diversity with unity. We must not see malice in honest differences of opinion, and no matter how great, so long as they are not inconsistent with the pledges we have given to each other in and through our Constitution. 我们共和党人承诺恢复和振兴的这个制度的美丽，我们联邦制度的美丽，在于它调和多样性与统一。我们必须不在诚实的意见分歧中看到恶意，无论分歧多大，只要它们与我们在宪法中并通过宪法相互给予的承诺不矛盾。
Our Republican cause is not to level out the world or make its people conform in computer regimented sameness. Our Republican cause is to free our people and light the way for liberty throughout the world. 我们共和党的事业不是使世界平等或使其人民在计算机管制的同一性中顺从。我们共和党的事业是解放我们的人民，并为全世界的自由指明道路。
Ours is a very human cause for very humane goals. 我们的事业是为非常人道的目标服务的非常人性的事业。
This Party, its good people, and its unquenchable devotion to freedom, will not fulfill the purposes of this campaign, which we launch here and now, until our cause has won the day, inspired the world, and shown the way to a tomorrow worthy of all our yesteryears. 这个政党、它的善良人民及其对自由不懈的奉献，在我们的事业赢得胜利、激励世界并为一个值得我们所有过去的明天指明道路之前，不会完成我们在此刻发起的这场运动的目的。
I repeat, I accept your nomination with humbleness, with pride, and you and I are going to fight for the goodness of our land. 我重申，我怀着谦卑和自豪接受你们的提名，你们和我将为我们国家的美好而奋斗。
Thank you. 谢谢你们。