○  英语演讲：the great society  ○

l have to build homes and highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. so in the next 40 years we must re-build the entire urban united states.

aristotle said: "men come together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life." it is harder and harder to live the good life in american cities today. the catalog of ills is long: there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs. there is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our traffic. open land is vanishing and old landmarks are violated. worst of all expansion is eroding these precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. the loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference.

and our society will never be great until our cities are great. today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their borders. new experiments are already going on. it will be the task of your generation to make the american city a place where future generations will come, not only to live, but to live the good life. and i understand that if i stayed here tonight i would see that michigan students are really doing their best to live the good life.

this is the place where the peace corps was started.

it is inspiring to see how all of you, while you are in this country, are trying so hard to live at the level of the people.

a second place where we begin to build the great society is in our countryside. we have always prided ourselves on being not only america the strong and america the free, but america

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