:美国总统布什的就职演讲稿

　　Where there is suffering, there is duty. Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities. And all of us are diminished when any are hopeless.

　　Government has great responsibilities for public safety and public health, for civil rights and common schools. Yet compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government.

　　And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor\'s touch or a pastor\'s prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and in our laws.

　　Many in our country do not know the pain of poverty, but we can listen to those who do.

　　And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that wounded traveler on

　　the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side.

　　America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected.

　　Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment. We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments. And we find that children and community are the commitments that set us free.

　　Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our freedom.

　　Sometimes in life we are called to do great things. But as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great love. The most important tasks of a democracy are done by everyone.