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1、第 1 页 华盛顿届就职演说(3) 特征码 QyawqhywgnmhDrfYiLGw To the foregoing observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then
2、 on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary pensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed; and being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to m
3、yself any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as
4、the public good may be thought to require. 第 2 页 Having thus imparted to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication that, since
5、 He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.