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I ask our youngest citizens to believe the evidence of your eyes.
我希望我們最年輕的公民相信你們的雙眼。
You have seen duty and allegiance in the determined faces of our soldiers.
你們從美軍士兵堅毅的表情中看到了責任和忠誠。
You have seen that life is fragile, and evil is real, and courage triumphs.
你們看到生命是脆弱的，邪惡是真實存在的，勇氣獲得了勝利。
Make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants,
加入這項比你的渴望、比你自身更偉大的事業吧！
larger than yourself and in your days you will add not just to the wealth of our country, but to its character.
有生之年，你不僅為我們的國家增添了財富，你還會幫助它完善品格。
America has need of idealism and courage, because we have essential work at home the unfinished work of American freedom.
美國需要理想和勇氣，因為我們在本土有重要的工作，那就是尚未完成的美國推動自由的工作。
In a world moving toward liberty, we are determined to show the meaning and promise of liberty.
在一個走向自由的世界里，我們決心彰顯自由的意義和承諾。
In America's ideal of freedom, citizens find the dignity and security of economic independence, instead of laboring on the edge of subsistence.
在美國的自由理想中，公民們發現了經濟獨立帶來的尊嚴和保障，而不是徘徊在生存邊緣的辛苦勞作。
This is the broader definition of liberty that motivated the Homestead Act, the Social Security Act, and the G.I. Bill of Rights.
這是自由更廣泛的定義，它推動了《宅地法案》、《社會保障法案》和《退伍軍人權利法案》的制定。
And now we will extend this vision by reforming great institutions to serve the needs of our time.
現在，我們通過改革總體制度，滿足時代需求，來擴展這一定義。
To give every American a stake in the promise and future of our country, we will bring the highest standards to our schools, and build an ownership society.
為了使每一個美國人都與我們國家的希望和未來息息相關，我們要以最高標準發展學校教育、建設所有權社會。
We will widen the ownership of homes and businesses, retirement savings and health insurance preparing our people for the challenges of life in a free society.
我們將擴大人們對房屋和企業、退休儲蓄和醫療保險的所有權，讓我們的人民作好準備，應對自由社會中的生活挑戰。
By making every citizen an agent of his or her own destiny, we will give our fellow Americans greater freedom from want and fear, and make our society more prosperous and just and equal.
通過使每一位公民成為自己命運的主宰者，我們將使美國同胞更加遠離短缺和恐懼，使我們的社會更加繁榮、公正、平等。
In America's ideal of freedom, the public interest depends on private character on integrity, and tolerance toward others, and the rule of conscience in our own lives.
在美國的自由理想中，公眾利益取決于個人品格———正直、對他人的寬容以及我們自己生活中的道德準則。
Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.
民主自治最終要依賴對自我的管理。
That edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards,
品格的大廈建立在家庭之上，由規范的社區來支撐，
and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people.
憑借西奈真理、山上寶訓、《古蘭經》上的話語以及各種信仰的支持，樹立在我們的國家生活之中。
