第一篇：如何發(fā)表英文演講

Classic Speech Making Sentences 經(jīng)典演講套路

----The Most Commonly Used Speech Sentences.----標(biāo)準(zhǔn)開篇語，正文用語，結(jié)束用語，演講示范

Greetings 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)開篇語

Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning!（女士們 先生們，上午好?。〩ello everybody and welcome!（各位，你們好，歡迎你們?。㊣t’s my great honor to be here!（我到這里來，倍感榮幸?。㊣’m very happy to see you all!（我很高興見到大家。）Thank you all for being here!（感謝大家光臨。）

Main Body Sentences 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)正文用語

What I am going to talk about today is …（我今天要談?wù)摰氖恰〧irstly I’d like to talk about …（首先，我想談?wù)劇㎝y topic today is very interesting.（我今天談?wù)摰脑掝}很有趣。）I hope I can share my experience with you.（我希望能和大家分享我的經(jīng)歷。）Remember this important point.（請(qǐng)記住這個(gè)重點(diǎn)。）

Closing Sentences 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)結(jié)束語

Finally I’d like to summarize the main points.（最后，我想總結(jié)一下要點(diǎn)。）I hope you all enjoy yourselves today.（我希望大家都過的很開心。）Thank you for listening.（感謝你們前來聽講。）Thank you for your time!（感謝你們的光臨。）Thank you very much!（非常感謝?。?/p>

Sample Speech 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)演講示范

American High School Students

1.Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.It’s my great honor to be here and I am very happy to see you all.Thank you for being here.What I am going to talk about today is American education.2.Firstly, I’d like to talk about American high school students.My topic today is very different from Chinese high school students are very different form Chinese high school students.I was s teacher in an American high school and I hope I can share my experiences with you.3.Remember this important point, American students care about their social activities and activities outside school more than anything else.Chinese students care about their schoolwork and exams more than anything else.American students are very independent.They drive their own cars, work at part time jobs and often have their own phones, televisions, stereos and video games purchase with their own money.American students are often involved in relationships with boyfriends and girlfriends.Students in American must learn how to schedule their time among work, school, friends, sports and of course, fun!This type of responsibility is challenging foe young people and often their education suffers.This is just a brief introduction one of the many aspects of American education.4.thank you all for listening and I hope you all enjoy yourselves today.[參考譯文] 1． 女士們，先生們，早上好！我很榮幸來到這里，并且很高興見到大家，謝謝你們的光臨。我今天要談?wù)摰脑掝}是美國(guó)教育。

2． 首先，我想談?wù)劽绹?guó)的高中生。我今天的話題很有趣，因?yàn)槊绹?guó)的高中生與中國(guó)的高中生有很大的不同。我是一位來自美國(guó)的中學(xué)老師，我希望我能和你門一起分享我的經(jīng)歷。

3． 請(qǐng)記住這一要點(diǎn)，美國(guó)的高中生把學(xué)校之外的社會(huì)實(shí)踐活動(dòng)看的比任何東西都要重要。而中國(guó)的學(xué)生把學(xué)校的表現(xiàn)和考試成績(jī)看得比什么都重要。美國(guó)學(xué)生很獨(dú)立。他們擁有自己的車，他們能兼職工作，他們用自己賺的錢去購(gòu)買電話，電視機(jī)，音箱和游戲機(jī)等。美國(guó)的高中生通常還有女朋友或男朋友。美國(guó)學(xué)生必須學(xué)會(huì)規(guī)劃好自己的時(shí)間，去應(yīng)付工作，學(xué)習(xí)，交友，運(yùn)動(dòng)，當(dāng)然還有娛樂等等。這種情況對(duì)年輕人來說是一種挑戰(zhàn)，通常他們的教育都會(huì)受到影響。這只是美國(guó)教育著面多棱鏡的一角。4． 感謝你們的聆聽，希望大家今天玩的愉快。

第一篇 Academy Awards Speech 奧斯卡頒獎(jiǎng)典禮致辭

-----頒獎(jiǎng)年年有，謝辭總相同

I’m very grateful to receive this award for “Best Actress.” I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate this great honor.There are many people I’d like to thank.First of all, I want to thank my parents for bringing me into this world.I also want to express my gratitude to all of my teachers over the years, but especially to my acting teacher, Jim Jones who taught me everything I know.I want to thank my husband, for his understanding and kindness.And finally, I want to thank my husband, for his understanding and kindness.And finally, I want to express my appreciation to all of my friends for their support, especially to Martin Miller, for being there when I needed him.This award means a great deal to me.Words can’t express how honored I feel at this moment.I will remember this night for the rest of my life!Thank you very much.[參考譯文] 獲此“最佳女主角”獎(jiǎng)的殊榮，我深表感謝。這種感激之情實(shí)在是無法用語言來表達(dá)。我想感謝很多人。首先，我想感謝我的父母把我?guī)У竭@個(gè)世界上來，另外，我還想對(duì)這么多年來教過我的老師說聲“謝謝”，尤其要感謝我的表演老師吉姆 瓊斯，他教會(huì)了我所知道的每一件事。我要感謝我的丈夫?qū)ξ业睦斫馀c支持。最后，我想感謝所有支持過我的朋友，特別感謝馬丁 米勒，每當(dāng)我需要他時(shí)，他總在我身邊。這個(gè)獎(jiǎng)對(duì)我來說意義重大，任何話語也表達(dá)不了此時(shí)我所感到的萬分榮幸。我今生將永遠(yuǎn)記住今晚的美好時(shí)刻！非常感謝。

第二篇 Happy Mothers’ Day 母親節(jié)快樂

1． Good morning.I wish every mother listening a happy Mothers’ day , including my own.2． And I want to remind every daughter and every son to tell mom first thing tomorrow how much you love her.3． Mothers’ Day is only one day a year.4． It is not really enough time to show our appreciation for the love, work and care our mothers give us every day of the year.5． Make this Mothers’ Day special for your mother by really telling her just how much you care.6． Let her know that you appreciate everything she has done for you throughout the years.7． Once again, to all the mothers everywhere, “have a very happy Mothers’ day!”

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1． 早上好！我祝愿電視機(jī)前每位母親節(jié)日快樂！也祝我自己的母親節(jié)日快樂！

2． 我想提醒所有的女人和兒子們，明天早上起床做的第一件事就是告訴你們的母親你們愛她。3． 母親節(jié)每年只有一天。

4． 這點(diǎn)時(shí)間實(shí)在不夠我們用來表達(dá)對(duì)關(guān)愛我們，無私奉獻(xiàn)的母親的感激之情。

5． 為你的母親準(zhǔn)備一個(gè)特別的節(jié)日，告訴她你們很牽掛她。

6． 告訴她，你很感激多年來，她為你做的一切。7． 再次對(duì)天下所有的母親所一聲：“節(jié)日快樂”！

第三篇 I Have a Dream 1．2．3．我有一個(gè)夢(mèng)

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.I say to you today, ma friends, so even though we face the difficulties of the day and tomorrow, I still have a dream.It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live up and live put the true meaning of its creed;”we hold these truths to be self-evident.That all men are created equal.”I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a(desert)state, sweltering with the heat of

injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice, I have a dream that ma four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content if their character.I have a dream today.4． I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right here in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made places will be made straight, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.5． This is our hope, this is the faith that I go back to the South with.With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.6． With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.[參考譯文] 1． 讓我們回到密西西比去，回到阿拉巴馬去，回到南卡羅來納去，回到佐治亞去，回到路易安那去，回到我們北方城市中的貧民區(qū)和少數(shù)民族居住區(qū)去，我們堅(jiān)信這種狀況是能夠也必將會(huì)改變的。我們不要陷入絕望的深淵中。

2． 朋友們，今天對(duì)你們說，盡管今天和明天我們都面臨著種種困難，但我仍然有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想。這個(gè)夢(mèng)想是深深扎根于美國(guó)的夢(mèng)想中的。

3． 我夢(mèng)想有一天，這個(gè)國(guó)家會(huì)戰(zhàn)立起來，真正實(shí)現(xiàn)其信條的真諦：“我們認(rèn)為這些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等?！蔽覊?mèng)想有一天，在佐治亞的紅山上，昔日奴隸的兒子將能夠和昔日奴隸主的兒子坐在一起，共敘兄弟情誼，我夢(mèng)想有一天甚至連密西西比州這個(gè)正義匿跡，壓迫成風(fēng)的地方，也變成自由和正義的綠洲。我夢(mèng)想有一天，我的四個(gè)孩子能生活在一個(gè)不是以他們膚色，而是以他們的品格劃分優(yōu)劣來評(píng)價(jià)他們的國(guó)家里。我今天有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想。4． 我夢(mèng)想有一天，啊拉巴馬州能夠有所轉(zhuǎn)變，盡管該州州長(zhǎng)現(xiàn)在仍然滿口異議，反對(duì)聯(lián)邦法令，但有朝一日，阿拉巴馬州這里的黑人男孩和女孩能與白人男孩情同骨肉，攜手并進(jìn)，我今天有一個(gè)夢(mèng)想。我夢(mèng)想有一天，幽谷上升，高山下降，坎坷曲折之路化為坦途，主的榮耀顯露，普照天地人間。

5． 這就是我們的希望。我懷著這種信念回到南方。有了這個(gè)信念，我們就能從絕望之峰劈出一塊希望之石。有了這個(gè)信念，我們就能把這個(gè)國(guó)家刺耳的爭(zhēng)吵，轉(zhuǎn)化為一支洋溢手足之情的優(yōu)美交響曲。

6． 有了這個(gè)信念，我們就能一起工作，一起祈禱，一起斗爭(zhēng)，一起坐牢，一起維護(hù)自由；以為我們知道，終有一天，我們會(huì)是自由的。

第四篇 one china 一個(gè)中國(guó)

將澤民主席闡述對(duì)臺(tái)灣的立場(chǎng)

There is only one China in the world.The Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole government and its sole representative in the United Nations.Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory.The peaceful reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Straits is the unshakable will and determination of the entire Chinese people, including the Taiwan compatriots, and an irresistible trend of history.With a proud patriotic tradition that dates back several thousand years, the Chinese people have the ability, the resourcefulness and confidence to overcome any interference to make their national reunification a reality.[參考譯文]

世界上只有一個(gè)中國(guó)。中華人民共和國(guó)政府是唯一代表中國(guó)的政府，是聯(lián)合國(guó)唯一的代表。臺(tái)灣是中國(guó)領(lǐng)土不可分割的一部分。海峽兩岸和平統(tǒng)一是包括臺(tái)灣人民在內(nèi)的全體中國(guó)人民堅(jiān)定不移的意志和決心，也是不可逆轉(zhuǎn)的歷史潮流。中國(guó)人民有幾千年的愛國(guó)傳統(tǒng)，我們有能力，有智慧，有信心抵制任何外來干涉，實(shí)現(xiàn)主國(guó)的完全統(tǒng)一。

第二篇：英文演講

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：英文演講

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.今天能有機(jī)會(huì)給大家做這個(gè)演講我感到非常榮幸。我演講的題目是保護(hù)環(huán)境就是保護(hù)我們自身，希望大家喜歡。

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.大家都能看見廢紙，可樂瓶丟得到處都是；也可能看到過塑料袋滿天飛，當(dāng)風(fēng)停的時(shí)候就掛在樹上；易拉罐在河里順流而下污染水源。我們大家賴以生存的環(huán)境，卻被我們親手破壞了。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.有一個(gè)關(guān)于房子和樹的故事。講的是一個(gè)人住在樹林圍繞的房子中，盡管風(fēng)很大，這個(gè)人還是可以在樹下安然而坐。這是多么愜意的生活?。】墒怯幸惶?，他想擴(kuò)建他的房屋，所以他把所有的樹都砍掉了。然而，秋天就在這時(shí)候來了，因?yàn)榉孔記]有任何的保護(hù)，狂風(fēng)把房頂吹上了天空，整個(gè)房子黯然消逝在狂風(fēng)中。這又是多么遺憾的一件事?。〉牵@就是破壞生態(tài)平衡的人所要付出的代價(jià)。人類不應(yīng)該目光短淺，保護(hù)環(huán)境人人有責(zé)。

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，有四種污染：空氣污染、水污染、廢棄物污染、噪音污染。但是，我們要怎么做才能避免這些污染呢?

我認(rèn)為，首先，我們可以讓汽車不再污染環(huán)境。我們可以讓現(xiàn)代的公司使用清潔能源。在大城市，可以限制汽車數(shù)量。

第二，我們可以嘗試節(jié)約用水，并且確保不污染水源。告知工廠，不能將廢水直接傾倒在河流和湖泊。

第三，我們不應(yīng)該隨便亂扔垃圾，看見隨地亂扔的垃圾的時(shí)候，隨手撿起來；并且在我們的城市和公園綠地增設(shè)更多的垃圾箱。

第四，我們可以立法，設(shè)置最小噪音，從而讓我們遠(yuǎn)離噪音。

第四篇：英文演講

Jeff Bezos：We are What We Choose

As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas.在我還是一個(gè)孩子的時(shí)候，我的夏天總是在德州祖父母的農(nóng)場(chǎng)中度過。

I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores.我?guī)兔π蘩盹L(fēng)車，為牛接種疫苗，也做其它家務(wù)。

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

每天下午，我們都會(huì)看肥皂劇，尤其是《我們的歲月》。

My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S.and Canada.我的祖父母參加了一個(gè)房車俱樂部，那是一群駕駛Airstream拖掛型房車的人們，他們結(jié)伴遍游美國(guó)和加拿大。

And every few summers, we'd join the caravan.每隔幾個(gè)夏天，我也會(huì)加入他們。

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.我們把房車掛在祖父的小汽車后面，然后加入300余名Airstream探險(xiǎn)者們組成的浩蕩隊(duì)伍。

I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips.我愛我的祖父母，我崇敬他們，也真心期盼這些旅程。

On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old.那是一次我大概十歲時(shí)的旅行。

I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car.我照例坐在后座的長(zhǎng)椅上。

My grandfather was driving.祖父開著車。

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

She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell.她一直在吸著煙，我討厭煙味。

......At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic.在那樣的年紀(jì)，我會(huì)找任何借口做些估測(cè)或者小算術(shù)。

I'd calculate our gas mileagethey're given after all.天賦得來很容易—畢竟它們與生俱來。

Choices can be hard.而選擇則頗為不易。

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，你可能被天賦所誘惑，這可能會(huì)損害到你做出的選擇。

This is a group with many gifts.在座各位都擁有許多天賦。

I'm sure one of your gifts is the gift of a smart and capable brain.我確信你們的天賦之一就是擁有精明能干的頭腦。

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.之所以如此確信，是因?yàn)槿雽W(xué)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)十分激烈，如果你們不能表現(xiàn)出聰明智慧，便沒有資格進(jìn)入這所學(xué)校。

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels.你們的聰明才智必定會(huì)派上用場(chǎng)，因?yàn)槟銈儗⒃谝黄錆M奇跡的土地上行進(jìn)。

We humanswill astonish ourselves.我們?nèi)祟?，盡管跬步前行，卻終將令自己大吃一驚。

We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it.我們能夠想方設(shè)法制造很多清潔能源。

Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs.也能夠一個(gè)原子一個(gè)原子地組裝微型機(jī)械，使之穿過細(xì)胞壁，然后修復(fù)細(xì)胞。

This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life.這個(gè)月，有一個(gè)異常而不可避免的事情發(fā)生了—人類終于合成了生命。

In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications.在未來幾年，我們不僅會(huì)合成生命，還會(huì)按說明書驅(qū)動(dòng)它們。

I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain.我相信你們甚至?xí)吹轿覀兝斫馊祟惖拇竽X。

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?，F(xiàn)實(shí)地說，你們從零塑造自己人生的時(shí)代即將開啟。

How will you use your gifts?

你們會(huì)如何運(yùn)用自己的天賦？

What choices will you make? 你們又會(huì)作出怎樣的抉擇？

Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions? 你們是被慣性所引導(dǎo)，還是追隨自己內(nèi)心的熱情？

Will you follow dogma, or will you be original? 你們會(huì)墨守陳規(guī)，還是勇于創(chuàng)新？

Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure? 你們會(huì)選擇安逸的生活，還是選擇一個(gè)奉獻(xiàn)與冒險(xiǎn)的人生？

Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions? 你們會(huì)屈從于批評(píng)，還是會(huì)堅(jiān)守信念？

Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize? 你們會(huì)掩飾錯(cuò)誤，還是會(huì)坦誠(chéng)道歉？

Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? 你們會(huì)因害怕拒絕而掩飾內(nèi)心，還是會(huì)在面對(duì)愛情時(shí)勇往直前？

Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling? 你們想要波瀾不驚，還是想要搏擊風(fēng)浪？

When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless? 你們會(huì)在嚴(yán)峻的現(xiàn)實(shí)之下選擇放棄，還是會(huì)義無反顧地前行？

Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder? 你們要做憤世嫉俗者，還是踏實(shí)的建設(shè)者？

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind? 你們要不計(jì)一切代價(jià)地展示聰明，還是選擇善良？

......I will hazard a prediction.我要做一個(gè)預(yù)測(cè)。

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.在你們80歲時(shí)某個(gè)追憶往昔的時(shí)刻，只有你一個(gè)人靜靜對(duì)內(nèi)心訴說著你的人生故事，其中最為充實(shí)、最有意義的那段講述，會(huì)被你們作出的一系列決定所填滿。

In the end, we are our choices.最后，是選擇塑造了我們的人生。

Build yourself a great story.為你自己塑造一個(gè)偉大的人生故事。

Thank you and good luck!謝謝聆聽，好運(yùn)！

第五篇：英文演講

英文演講：Barry Goldwater: 1964 Republican National Convention Address【英語演講稿】

2011-07-14 14:46:43 來源：互聯(lián)網(wǎng)

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