经典英文演讲100篇09

第一篇：经典英文演讲100篇09

delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

Reverend Meza, Reverend Reck, I'm grateful for your generous invitation to state my views.While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that I believe that we have far more critical issues in the 1960 campaign;the spread of Communist influence, until it now festers only 90 miles from the coast of Florida--the humiliating treatment of our President and Vice President by those who no longer respect our power--the hungry children I saw in West Virginia, the old people who cannot pay their doctors bills, the families forced to give up their farms--an America with too many slums, with too few schools, and too late to the moon and outer space.These are the real issues which should decide this campaign.And they are not religious issues--for war and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barrier.But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected President, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured--perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this.So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again--not what kind of church I believe in, for that should be important only tome--but what kind of America I believe in.I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute;where no Catholic prelate would tell the President--

should he be Catholic--how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote;where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish;where no public official either requests or accept

instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source;where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general

populace or the public acts of its officials, and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been--and may someday be again--a Jew, or a Quaker, or a Unitarian, or a Baptist.It was

Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that led to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom.Today, I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you--until the whole fabric of our

harmonious society is ripped apart at a time of great national peril.Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will

someday end--where all men and all churches are treated as equals, where every man has the same right to attend or not to attend the church of his choice, where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind, and where Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, at both the lay and the pastoral levels, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.That is the kind of America in which I believe.And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe, a great office that must be neither humbled by making it the instrument of any religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the

members of any one religious group.I believe in a President whose views on religion are his own private affair, neither imposed upon him by the nation, nor imposed by the nation upon him* [sic] as a condition to holding that office.I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the first amendment's guarantees of religious liberty.Nor would our

system of checks and balances permit him to do so.And neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test, even by indirection.For if they disagree with that safeguard, they should be out openly working to repeal it.I want a Chief Executive whose public acts are responsible to all and obligated to none, who can attend any ceremony, service, or dinner his office may appropriately require of him to fulfill;and whose

fulfillment of his Presidential office is not limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual, or obligation.This is the kind of America I believe in--and this is the kind of

America I fought for in the South Pacific, and the kind my brother died for in Europe.No one suggested then that we might have a divided loyalty, that we did not believe in liberty, or that we belonged to a

disloyal group that threatened “the freedoms for which our forefathers died.”

And in fact this is the kind of America for which our forefathers did when they fled here to escape religious test oaths that denied office to members of less favored churches--when they fought for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Virginia Statute of Religious

Freedom--and when they fought at the shrine I visited today, the Alamo.For side by side with Bowie and Crockett died Fuentes, and McCafferty, and Bailey, and Badillo, and Carey--but no one knows whether they were Catholics or not.For there was no religious test there.I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition--to judge me on the basis of 14 years in the Congress, on my declared stands against an

Ambassador to the Vatican, against unconstitutional aid to parochial schools, and against any boycott of the public schools--which I attended myself.And instead of doing this, do not judge me on the basis of these pamphlets and publications we all have seen that carefully select quotations out of context from the statements of

Catholic church leaders, usually in other countries, frequently in other centuries, and rarely relevant to any situation here.And always omitting, of course, the statement of the American Bishops in 1948 which strongly endorsed Church-State separation, and which more nearly reflects the views of almost every American Catholic.I do not consider these other quotations binding upon my public acts.Why should you?

But let me say, with respect to other countries, that I am wholly opposed to the State being used by any religious group, Catholic or Protestant, to compel, prohibit, or prosecute the free exercise of any other religion.And that goes for any persecution, at any time, by anyone, in any country.And I hope that you and I condemn with equal fervor those nations which deny their Presidency to Protestants, and those which deny it to Catholics.And rather than cite the misdeeds of those who differ, I would also cite the record of the Catholic Church in such nations as France and Ireland, and the independence of such statesmen as De Gaulle and Adenauer.But let me stress again that these are my views.For contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for President.I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President who happens also to be a Catholic.I do not speak for my church on public matters;and the church does not speak for me.Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected,on birth control, divorce, censorship,gambling or any other subject, I will make my decision in accordance with these views--in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictates.And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise.But if the time should ever come--and I do not concede any conflict to be remotely possible--when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office;and I hope any conscientious public servant would do likewise.But I do not intend to apologize for these views to my critics of either Catholic or Protestant faith;nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election.If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I'd tried my best and was fairly judged.But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being President on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser, in the eyes of

Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people.But if, on the other hand, I should win this election, then I shall devote every effort of mind and spirit to fulfilling the oath of the Presidency--practically identical, I might add, with the oath I have taken for 14 years in the Congress.For without reservation, I can,"solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution--so help me God.

第二篇：英文演讲

Why Do People Want To Have Less Stressed Life

As modorn society is bringing so much strees to people who want to just make a living, more and more people chosed to have less stress than high salery, glamorous life style and sometimes, fame.So, why do people want to have less stressed life? Some may ask.I think the main reason is almost every knows that stress is a great killer to health.Yes, if you are not even healthy, what are thease money for? It doesn't worth it!It is obvious, no one is not clear about that.There are may be other reasons too.Some people who do cares about their families found they have less time to spend wirh people they love because of the work load caused by stress.The complain“ I don't even know since when my little girl can call me dady!Stress has brought too much from my life!”

Of course, there maybe other reason for people getting away from stress, and i guess i don't have make a list of it.Because, each of you here may raise yourself the question: why do i want to have a less stressed life? And different version of the answer will just pop out your mind!

Everyone, please always remember: Seeking for a successful life is not wrong, but you should always judge the the thing you get and the thing you sacraficed.

第三篇：英文演讲

I feel so happy to have the chance to make a speech.The title of my speech is Protect the Environment, Protect Ourselves.I hope you will like it.今天能有机会给大家做这个演讲我感到非常荣幸。我演讲的题目是保护环境就是保护我们自身，希望大家喜欢。

Everybody knows waste paper and used coke cans are discarded everywhere.You might have seen plastic bags flying in the sky and getting caught in the trees when the wind blows or maybe you have seen old cans floating in the rivers and polluting the water.Our environment is the place in which we live, but it is being ruined by us.大家都能看见废纸，可乐瓶丢得到处都是；也可能看到过塑料袋满天飞，当风停的时候就挂在树上；易拉罐在河里顺流而下污染水源。我们大家赖以生存的环境，却被我们亲手破坏了。There is a story about house and trees.It is said that a man’s house was

surrounded by a lot of trees.Though the wind was strong, that man could have a good rest under the trees.How comfortable the life was!One day, that man wanted to enlarge his house, so he cut down all the trees.Then the autumn came without the protection.The strong wind blew the roof of the house into the sky.The whole house was gone with the wind.What a pity!But that’s the price people have to pay for destroying in the ecology balance.People shouldn’t be short-sighted.Protecting the environment is everyone’s task.有一个关于房子和树的故事。讲的是一个人住在树林围绕的房子中，尽管风很大，这个人还是可以在树下安然而坐。这是多么惬意的生活啊！可是有一天，他想扩建他的房屋，所以他把所有的树都砍掉了。然而，秋天就在这时候来了，因为房子没有任何的保护，狂风把房顶吹上了天空，整个房子黯然消逝在狂风中。这又是多么遗憾的一件事啊！但是，这就是破坏生态平衡的人所要付出的代价。人类不应该目光短浅，保护环境人人有责。

As you know, there are four kinds of pollution.They are air pollution, water pollution, waste pollution and noise pollution.But what can we do to solve the pollution? I think, firstly, we can make cars that don’t pollute the environment.We can ask companies to use modern clean technology.In some big cities, we can limit the number of cars.Secondly, we can try to use less water and make sure that we do not pollute the water.We can tell factories that they are not allowed to pour waste water into the lakes and rivers.Thirdly, we should not throw rubbish in parks and cities.We can pick up rubbish if we see it.We can put more rubbish bins in our parks and cities.Fourthly, we can live far from the noise and make the laws to limit the noise.大家都知道，有四种污染：空气污染、水污染、废弃物污染、噪音污染。但是，我们要怎么做才能避免这些污染呢?

我认为，首先，我们可以让汽车不再污染环境。我们可以让现代的公司使用清洁能源。在大城市，可以限制汽车数量。

第二，我们可以尝试节约用水，并且确保不污染水源。告知工厂，不能将废水直接倾倒在河流和湖泊。

第三，我们不应该随便乱扔垃圾，看见随地乱扔的垃圾的时候，随手捡起来；并且在我们的城市和公园绿地增设更多的垃圾箱。

第四，我们可以立法，设置最小噪音，从而让我们远离噪音。

第四篇：英文演讲

Jeff Bezos：We are What We Choose

As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas.在我还是一个孩子的时候，我的夏天总是在德州祖父母的农场中度过。

I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores.我帮忙修理风车，为牛接种疫苗，也做其它家务。

We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially “Days of our Lives.”

每天下午，我们都会看肥皂剧，尤其是《我们的岁月》。

My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S.and Canada.我的祖父母参加了一个房车俱乐部，那是一群驾驶Airstream拖挂型房车的人们，他们结伴遍游美国和加拿大。

And every few summers, we'd join the caravan.每隔几个夏天，我也会加入他们。

We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car, and off we'd go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers.我们把房车挂在祖父的小汽车后面，然后加入300余名Airstream探险者们组成的浩荡队伍。

I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips.我爱我的祖父母，我崇敬他们，也真心期盼这些旅程。

On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old.那是一次我大概十岁时的旅行。

I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car.我照例坐在后座的长椅上。

My grandfather was driving.祖父开着车。

And my grandmother had the passenger seat.祖母坐在他旁边。

She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell.她一直在吸着烟，我讨厌烟味。

......At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic.在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。

I'd calculate our gas mileagethey're given after all.天赋得来很容易—毕竟它们与生俱来。

Choices can be hard.而选择则颇为不易。

You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.如果一不小心，你可能被天赋所诱惑，这可能会损害到你做出的选择。

This is a group with many gifts.在座各位都拥有许多天赋。

I'm sure one of your gifts is the gift of a smart and capable brain.我确信你们的天赋之一就是拥有精明能干的头脑。

I'm confident that's the case because admission is competitive and if there weren't some signs that you're clever, the dean of admission wouldn't have let you in.之所以如此确信，是因为入学竞争十分激烈，如果你们不能表现出聪明智慧，便没有资格进入这所学校。

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels.你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。

We humanswill astonish ourselves.我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。

We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it.我们能够想方设法制造很多清洁能源。

Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs.也能够一个原子一个原子地组装微型机械，使之穿过细胞壁，然后修复细胞。

This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life.这个月，有一个异常而不可避免的事情发生了—人类终于合成了生命。

In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications.在未来几年，我们不仅会合成生命，还会按说明书驱动它们。

I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain.我相信你们甚至会看到我们理解人类的大脑。

Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newtonsomething that simply couldn't exist in the physical worldthe life you author from scratch on your own-begins.明天，非常现实地说，你们从零塑造自己人生的时代即将开启。

How will you use your gifts?

你们会如何运用自己的天赋？

What choices will you make? 你们又会作出怎样的抉择？

Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions? 你们是被惯性所引导，还是追随自己内心的热情？

Will you follow dogma, or will you be original? 你们会墨守陈规，还是勇于创新？

Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure? 你们会选择安逸的生活，还是选择一个奉献与冒险的人生？

Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions? 你们会屈从于批评，还是会坚守信念？

Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize? 你们会掩饰错误，还是会坦诚道歉？

Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? 你们会因害怕拒绝而掩饰内心，还是会在面对爱情时勇往直前？

Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling? 你们想要波澜不惊，还是想要搏击风浪？

When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless? 你们会在严峻的现实之下选择放弃，还是会义无反顾地前行？

Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder? 你们要做愤世嫉俗者，还是踏实的建设者？

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind? 你们要不计一切代价地展示聪明，还是选择善良？

......I will hazard a prediction.我要做一个预测。

When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made.在你们80岁时某个追忆往昔的时刻，只有你一个人静静对内心诉说着你的人生故事，其中最为充实、最有意义的那段讲述，会被你们作出的一系列决定所填满。

In the end, we are our choices.最后，是选择塑造了我们的人生。

Build yourself a great story.为你自己塑造一个伟大的人生故事。

Thank you and good luck!谢谢聆听，好运！

第五篇：英文演讲

英文演讲：Barry Goldwater: 1964 Republican National Convention Address【英语演讲稿】

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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.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.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.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.The good Lord raised this mighty 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.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.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 [sic] will not become the slavery of the prison shell [cell];balanced so that liberty lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the jungle.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.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.Now, failures cements 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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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, and this Nation was founded upon the rejection of that notion and upon the acceptance of God as the author of freedom.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.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.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.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.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.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.And I needn't remind you that it was the strength and the [un]believable 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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.Now, this is a goal far, far more meaningful than a moon shot.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.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.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 “simpatico”--no less than enlightened self'-interest will be our guide.And I can see this Atlantic civilization galvanizing and guiding emergent nations everywhere.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.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.My fellow Republicans, we do no man a service by hiding freedom's light under a bushel of mistaken humility.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.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.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.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.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.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.We see--We see in private property and in 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.We see in the sanctity of private property the only durable foundation for constitutional government in a free society.And--And beyond that, we see, in cherished diversity of ways, diversity of thoughts, of motives and accomplishments.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.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.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.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.This is a Party.This Republican Party is a Party for free men, not for blind followers, and not for conformists.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.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.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.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.I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.(Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.)And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Why 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.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.Ours is a very human cause for very humane goals.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.I repeat, I accept your nomination with humbleness, with pride, and you and I are going to fight for the goodness of our land