英语播客EnglishPod 385

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 A:    We now stand ten years past the midpoint of
       a century that has witnessed four major wars
       among great nations. Three of these involved
       our own country. Despite the carnage of these
       conflicts, America is today the strongest, the
        most influential¹ and most productive nation in the
       world. We are understandably proud of this pre-
       eminence², yet we realize that America’s leader-
       ship and prestige depend, not merely upon  our
        unmatched material progress, riches and military
       strength, but on how we use our power in the in-
       terests of world peace and human betterment.

 A:    Throughout America’s adventure in free govern-
        ment, such basic purposes have been to keep
       the peace;  to foster progress in human achieve-
        ment, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity
       among peoples and among nations.
 A:    We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all
        nations, may have their great human needs sat-
        isfied; that those now  denied opportunity shall
       come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn³
       for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings⁴;
       that those who have freedom will understand,
       also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are in-
       sensitive to the needs of others will learn charity;
       that the scourges⁵ of poverty, disease and igno-
        rance  will  be  made  to  disappear  from  the  earth,
       and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will
       come  to  live  together  in  a  peace  guaranteed  by
       the binding⁶ force of mutual⁷ respect and love.

 A:     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.