○  英语演讲稿：the great society  ○

s we will begin to set our course toward the great society.
　　the solution to these problems does not rest on a massive program in washington, nor can it rely solely on the strained resources of local authority. they require us to create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the national capital and the leaders of local communities.

　　woodrow wilson once wrote: "every man sent out from his university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time."
　　within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the bounds of our imagination.
　　for better or for worse, your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead america toward a new age. you have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age. you can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the nation.
　　so, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which god enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?
　　will you join in the battle to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty?
　　will you join in the battle to make it possible for all nations to live in enduring peace -- as neighbors and not as mortal enemies?
　　will you join in the battle to build the great society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?
　　there are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won; that we are condemned to a soulless wealth. i do not agree. we have the power to shape the civilization that we want. but we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society.
　　those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country. they sought a new world. s

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