꼭 외워야할 영어 명문 Best 20
(비교적 쉬운 것은 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20장)
목차
01. Inaugural Address - by Bill Clinton
02. I have a Dream - by Martin Luther King, Jr
03. Non-Cooperation with Non-violence - by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
04. Seven Words to live by - by John W. Garen
05. The world is Getting Warmer. Why? - by Carl Sagan
06. How to Enjoy Music - by George R. Marek
07. Old Soldiers Never Die - by Douglas MacAther
08. What to Do with Your College Life - by Roger W. Holmes
09. Love -from 1 corinthians 13
10. A Psalm of David - from Psalm 23
11. The College Student's Goal - by Stanley J. Idzerdia
12. Forgiveness : The Healing Art - by Doris Donnelly
13. Owning Books - by William Lyon Phelps
14. How to Read Body Language - by David Abercrombie
15. Have a Good Four Years - by Dereck C. Bok
16. When God Made a Father - by Erma Bombeck
17. Why I want a Wife? - by Judy Syfers
18. Universities Have Fallen down on the Job of Teaching Values - by James Billington
19. The Art of Meditation - by Ardis Whitman
20. Billy Graham Preaches about Salvation through Jesus - by Billy
Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton
January 20, 1997
My fellow citizens :
At this last presidential inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs, a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.
The promise of America was born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge of slavery.
Then, in turmoil and triumph, that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.
And what a century it has been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power; saved the world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for the blessings of liberty.
Along the way, Americans produced a great middle class and security in old age; built unrivaled centers of learning and opened public schools to all; split the atom and explored the heavens; invented the computer and the microchip; and deepened the wellspring of justice by making a revolution in civil rights for African Americans and all minorities, and extending the circle of citizenship, opportunity and dignity to women.
Now, for the third time, a new century is upon us, and another time to choose. We began the 19th century with a choice, to spread our nation from coast to coast. We began the 20th century with a choice, to harness the Industrial Revolution to our values of free enterprise, conservation, and human decency. Those choices made all the difference.
At the dawn of the 21st century a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and, yes, to form a more perfect union.
When last we gathered, our march to this new future seemed less certain than it does today. We vowed then to set a clear course to renew our nation.
In these four years, we have been touched by tragedy, exhilarated by challenge, strengthened by achievement. America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation. once again, our economy is the strongest on Earth. once again, we are building stronger families, thriving communities, better educational opportunities, a cleaner environment. Problems that once seemed destined to deepen now bend to our efforts: our streets are safer and record numbers of our fellow citizens have moved from welfare to work.
And once again, we have resolved for our time a great debate over the role of government. Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We,- the American people, we are the solution. Our founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day.
As times change, so government must change. We need a new government for a new century - humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us, but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves; a government that is smaller, lives within its means, and does more with less. Yet where it can stand up for our values and interests in the world, and where it can give Americans the power to make a real difference in their everyday lives, government should do more, not less. The preeminent mission of our new government is to give all Americans an opportunity,- not a guarantee, but a real opportunity to build better lives.
Beyond that, my fellow citizens, the future is up to us. Our founders taught us that the preservation of our liberty and our union depends upon responsible citizenship. And we need a new sense of responsibility for a new century. There is work to do, work that government alone cannot do: teaching children to read; hiring people off welfare rolls; coming out from behind locked doors and shuttered windows to help reclaim our streets from drugs and gangs and crime; taking time out of our own lives to serve others.
Each and every one of us, in our own way, must assume personal responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our neighbors and our nation. Our greatest responsibility is to embrace a new spirit of community for a new century. For any one of us to succeed, we must succeed as one America.
The challenge of our past remains the challenge of our future, will we be one nation, one people, with one common destiny, or not? Will we all come together, or come apart?
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different. These forces have nearly destroyed our nation in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. And they torment the lives of millions in fractured nations all around the world.
These obsessions cripple both those who hate and, of course, those who are hated, robbing both of what they might become. We cannot, we will not, succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere. We shall overcome them. And we shall replace them with the generous spirit of a people who feel at home with one another.
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
As this new era approaches we can already see its broad outlines. Ten years ago, the Internet was the mystical province of physicists; today, it is a commonplace encyclopedia for millions of schoolchildren. Scientists now are decoding the blueprint of human life. Cures for our most feared illnesses seem close at hand.
The world is no longer divided into two hostile camps. Instead, now we are building bonds with nations that once were our adversaries. Growing connections of commerce and culture give us a chance to lift the fortunes and spirits of people the world over. And for the very first time in all of history, more people on this planet live under democracy than dictatorship.
My fellow Americans, as we look back at this remarkable century, we may ask, can we hope not just to follow, but even to surpass the achievements of the 20th century in America and to avoid the awful bloodshed that stained its legacy? To that question, every American here and every American in our land today must answer a resounding "Yes."
This is the heart of our task. With a new vision of government, a new sense of responsibility, a new spirit of community, we will sustain America's journey. The promise we sought in a new land we will find again in a land of new promise.
In this new land, education will be every citizen's most prized possession. Our schools will have the highest standards in the world, igniting the spark of possibility in the eyes of every girl and every boy. And the doors of higher education will be open to all. The knowledge and power of the Information Age will be within reach not just of the few, but of every classroom, every library, every child. Parents and children will have time not only to work, but to read and play together. And the plans they make at their kitchen table will be those of a better home, a better job, the certain chance to go to college.
Our streets will echo again with the laughter of our children, because no one will try to shoot them or sell them drugs anymore. Everyone who can work, will work, with today's permanent under class part of tomorrow's growing middle class. New miracles of medicine at last will reach not only those who can claim care now, but the children and hardworking families too long denied.
We will stand mighty for peace and freedom, and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Ports and airports, farms and factories will thrive with trade and innovation and ideas. And the world's greatest democracy will lead a whole world of democracies.
Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values. A nation where our grandparents have secure retirement and health care, and their grandchildren know we have made the reforms necessary to sustain those benefits for their time. A nation that fortifies the world's most productive economy even as it protects the great natural bounty of our water, air, and majestic land.
And in this land of new promise, we will have reformed our politics so that the voice of the people will always speak louder than the din of narrow interests, regaining the participation and deserving the trust of all Americans.
Fellow citizens, let us build that America, a nation ever moving forward toward realizing the full potential of all its citizens. Prosperity and power, yes, they are important, and we must maintain them. But let us never forget: The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.
Thirty-four years ago, the man whose life we celebrate today spoke to us down there, at the other end of this Mall, in words that moved the conscience of a nation. Like a prophet of old, he told of his dream that one day America would rise up and treat all its citizens as equals before the law and in the heart. Martin Luther King's dream was the American Dream. His quest is our quest: the ceaseless striving to live out our true creed. Our history has been built on such dreams and labors. And by our dreams and labors we will redeem the promise of America in the 21st century.
To that effort I pledge all my strength and every power of my office. I ask the members of Congress here to join in that pledge. The American people returned to office a President of one party and a Congress of another. Surely, they did not do this to advance the politics of petty bickering and extreme partisanship they plainly deplore. No, they call on us instead to be repairers of the breach, and to move on with America's mission.
America demands and deserves big things from us,- and nothing big ever came from being small. Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing the end of his own life. He said, "It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division."
Fellow citizens, we must not waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same journey of our lives, and our journey, too, will come to an end. But the journey of our America must go on.
And so, my fellow Americans, we must be strong, for there is much to dare. The demands of our time are great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage, with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our bridge. A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American to cross over to a blessed land of new promise.
May those generations whose faces we cannot yet see, whose names we may never know, say of us here that we led our beloved land into a new century with the American Dream alive for all her children; with the American promise of a more perfect union a reality for all her people; with America's bright flame of freedom spreading throughout all the world.
From the height of this place and the summit of this century, let us go forth. May God strengthen our hands for the good work ahead, and always, always bless our America.
클린턴 대통령 취임사
1997. 1. 20
친애하는 국민 여러분, 20세기의 마지막 대통령 취임식에서 우리의 눈을 들어 다음 세기에 우리를 기다리는 도전을 바라봅시다. 시간과 기회가 우리를 새로운 세기, 즉 새천년의 경계에 있게 했을 뿐만 아니라 인간사의 밝고 새로운 전망의 문턱 - 다가올 수십 년 동안 우리의 나아갈 길과 특징을 명확히 할 순간 - 에 있게 한 것은 크나큰 행운입니다. 우리는 우리의 오랜 민주주의를 영원히 젊게 유지해야 하겠습니다. 약속의 땅에 대한 조상들의 인도를 따라 우리의 시선을 새로운 약속의 땅에 고정시킵시다.
미국의 약속은 우리 모두가 평등하다는 투철한 신념을 지닌 채 18세기에 태어났습니다. 그 약속은 우리가 대륙을 가로지르던, 연방을 수호했던, 끔찍한 노예제도를 폐지했던 19세기에 널리 퍼졌고 지켜졌습니다.
그 후 혼란과 영광 속에서 그 약속은 세계로 퍼져 20세기를 미국의 시대로 만들었습니다.
정말 대단한 세기였습니다. 미국은 세계 최강의 산업국가가 되었고, 두 번의 세계대전과 긴 냉전을 통해 독재에서 세계를 구했고, 우리처럼 자유의 축복을 갈망하는 수많은 사람들을 도왔습니다.
그러는 동안 우리는 많은 중산층과 노후보장을 배출하였고, 세계 최고의 배움의 중심지를 건설하였고, 모든 이에게 공립학교를 개방하였으며, 원자를 쪼개었고 하늘을 탐험하였으며, 컴퓨터와 마이크로 칩을 발명하였고, 흑인과 소수 민족을 위한 시민 혁명을 이룩하고 여성에게 시민권과 기회와 고위직을 확대하여 정의의 샘을 한층 깊게 하였습니다.
이제 세 번 째 시기인 새천년이, 또 다른 선택의 시간이 다가옵니다. 우리는 조국을 대서양에서 태평양으로 확장하는 선택으로 19세기를 시작하였습니다. 우리는 산업혁명을 자유 기업, 보존, 인격의 가치를 위한 수단으로 20세기를 선택하였습니다. 이러한 선택이 모든 것을 바꾸었습니다. 21세기의 여명에서 자유민 각자는 정보화 시대, 세계화 사회의 힘을 형성하기 위한, 우리 국민의 무한한 가능성을 촉진하기 위한, 더 완전한 연합을 형성하기 위한 선택을 해야 합니다.
지난번 우리가 모였을 때, 우리의 이 새로운 미래로의 행진이 오늘의 행진보다 덜 확실해 보였습니다. 우리는 그때 우리 국가를 새롭게 하기 위한 명확한 진로를 만들기로 맹세하였습니다.
지난 4년간 우리는 비극으로 상처 받았고, 도전으로 고무되었으며, 성취하여 강해졌습니다. 미국은 세계에서 없어서는 안 될 국가로 우뚝 서있습니다. 다시 한번 우리 경제는 세계 최강이 되었습니다. 또 다시 우리는 튼튼한 가정, 번영하는 사회, 더 나은 교육 기회, 더 깨끗한 환경을 건걸하고 있습니다. 한때는 악화될 듯한 문제점이 이제 우리의 노력에 굴복하고 있습니다; 거리는 안전해지고 기록적인 숫자의 시민들이 실업연금에서 직장으로 돌아가게 되었습니다.
그리고 다시 한번 우리는 우리 시대를 위한 정부 역할에 대한 논쟁을 종식시켰습니다. 오늘 우리는 선언할 수 있습니다. ; 정부가 문제가 아니고 정부가 해결책도 아닙니다. 우리 미국인, 우리가 해결책입니다. 우리의 선조들은 그 점을 잘 알았으며 우리에게 수세기 동안 지속될 강력하면서도, 우리의 공통된 도전에 직면하고 매일 공통된 이상을 발전시킬 만큼 유연한 민주주의를 물려주었습니다.
시대가 변함에 따라 정부도 당연히 변해야 합니다. 우리는 새천년을 위한 새로운 정부를 필요로 합니다. 우리를 위해 우리의 모든 문제를 해결하려들지 않을 만큼 겸손하지만, 문제 해결을 위한 수단을 제공할 만큼 강력한 정부, 보다 작고, 재정 내에서 운용하며 적은 것으로 더 많은 일을 하는 정부를 필요로 합니다. 하지만 정부가 세계에서 우리의 가치와 이익을 옹호해 주고 국민생활을 변화시킬 힘을 국민에게 주려면 정부는 일을 더해야 합니다. 우리 새로운 정부의 주 사명은 국민에게 보장이 아닌 기회를, 더 나은 삶을 만들 실질적인 기회를 주는 것입니다.
친애하는 국민 여러분, 뿐만 아니라 미래는 우리 손에 있습니다. 우리 조상들은 우리의 자유와 연방 수호가 책임감 있는 시만 정신에 있다고 가르쳤습니다. 우리는 새 천년에 적합한 새로운 책임감이 필요합니다. 정부 혼자 할 수 없는 새로운 일이 있습니다. 어린이에게 읽기를 가르치고, 실업자를 고용하며, 마약, 폭력, 범죄로부터 우리의 거리를 구하기 위해 잠긴 문과 잠겨진 창문에서 나와야 하며, 다른 이들을 돕기 위해 우리의 생활에서 시간을 할애해야 합니다.
나름대로 우리 각각은 자신과 가족뿐만 아니라 이웃과 국가를 위한 개인적 책임을 져야 합니다. 우리의 가장 중요한 책임은 새천년에 적합한 새로운 공동체 정신을 수용하는 것입니다. 우리 중 어느 누군가가 성공하려면 우리는 하나의 미국으로 성공해야 합니다.
과거 우리의 도전은 미래의 도전으로 남아 있습니다. 우리는 하나의 공동 운명을 지닌 하나의 국가, 하나의 국민이 될 수 있습니까, 없습니까? 우리는 하나로 뭉치겠습니까, 흩어지겠습니까?
인종차별은 미국이 갖고 있는 끈질긴 저주였습니다. 새로운 이민자들의 물결은 낡은 편견에 새로운 목표를 가져다줍니다. 종교적 또는 정치적 신념이라는 허울을 쓴 편견과 경멸은 다를 바 없습니다. 이러한 세력이 과거에 우리나라를 거의 파멸시켰습니다. 그들은 아직도 우리를 괴롭힙니다. 그들은 광신적 테러를 부추겼습니다. 그들은 전 세계 분열된 국가의 수많은 사람들의 삶을 고통스럽게 하고 있습니다.
이러한 망상은 증오하는 자는 물론 당하는 자까지도 가능성을 박탈한 채 파멸시킵니다. 우리는 영혼 깊숙이 숨어 있는 음흉한 충동에 굴복할 수 없으며 굴복하지도 않을 것입니다. 우리는 충동을 극복할 것입니다. 우리는 서로 편안함을 느끼는 국민의 포용력으로 충동을 대체할 것입니다.
우리의 풍부한 인종, 종교, 정치적 다양성은 21세기에는 하늘이 준 선물이 될 것입니다. 같이 살고, 같이 배우고, 같이 일하고, 같이 새로운 연대를 이룰 수 있는 자에게 은총이 있을 것입니다.
이 새로운 시대가 옴에 따라 우리는 이미 대강의 윤곽을 볼 수 있습니다. 10년 전 인터넷은 물리학자의 신비스런 영역이었습니다. 오늘날 인터넷은 수백만 학생을 위한 흔한 백과사전이 되었습니다. 지금 과학자들은 인간 생명의 청사진을 해독하고 있습니다. 우리가 가장 두려워하는 질병의 치료도 머지않아 가능할 것입니다.
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