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Dwight D.Eisenhower

Farewell Addre

delivered 17 January 1961

演讲者简介：德怀特·大卫·艾森豪威尔(Dwight David Eisenhower，1890年10月14日-1969年3月28日)，是美国陆军五星上将和第34任总统(1953年-1961年)。第二次世界大战期间，他担任盟军在欧洲的最高指挥官;负责计划和执行监督1944年至1945年里，进攻维希法国和纳粹德国的行动。1951年又出任北大西洋公约组织武装力量最高司令，昵称为艾克(Ike)。

Good evening, my fellow Americans.First, I should like to expre my gratitude to the radio and television networks for the opportunities they have given me over the years to bring reports and meages to our nation.My special thanks go to them for the opportunity of addreing you this evening.Three days from now, after half century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the presidency is vested in my succeor.This evening, I come to you with a meage of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.Like every other--Like every other citizen, I wish the new president, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed.I pray that the coming years will be bleed with peace and prosperity for all.Our people expect their president and the Congre to find eential agreement on iues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the nation.My own relations with the Congre, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and finally to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.In this final relationship, the Congre and the Administration have, on most vital iues, cooperated well, to serve the nation good, rather than mere partisanship, and so have aured that the busine of the nation should go forward.So, my official relationship with the Congre ends in a feeling--on my part--of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witneed four major wars among great nations.Three of these involved our own country.Despite these holocausts, America is today the strongest, the most influential, and most productive nation in the world.Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progre, riches, and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace, to foster progre in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity among peoples and among nations.To strive for le would be unworthy of a free and religious people.Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension, or readine to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt, both at home and abroad.progre toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world.It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings.We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthle in purpose, and insiduous [insidious] in method.Unhappily, the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration.To meet it succefully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle with liberty the stake.Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.Crises there will continue to be.In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.A huge increase in newer elements of our defenses;development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture;a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research--these and many other poibilities, each poibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs, balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages, balance between the clearly neceary and the comfortably desirable, balance between our eential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual, balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future.Good judgment seeks balance and progre.Lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their Government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of threat and stre.Happily, I can say that war has been avoided.Steady progre toward our ultimate goal has been made.But so much remains to be done.As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.So, in this, my last good night to you as your president, I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and in peace.I trust in that--in that--in that service you find some things worthy.As for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future.You and I, my fellow citizens, need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice.May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nations' great goals.To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expreion to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration: We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied;that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full;that all who yearn for freedom may experience its few spiritual bleings.Those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibility;that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity;and that the sources--scourges of poverty, disease, and ignorance will be made [to] disappear from the earth;and that in the goodne of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen.I am proud to do so.I look forward to it.Thank you, and good night.