First Inaugural AddressFranklin Delano Roosevelt: First InauguralAddress delivered March 4, 1933
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President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends:
聖別This is a day of national consecration. I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on
就任

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my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which迫る

当にthe present situation of our Nation impels. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth,
the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions inour country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will
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prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear
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itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert
後退retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and活力得る

vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which isessential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership inthese critical days.
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern,
物価

thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen;
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our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of
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枯れ葉

income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves ofindustrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; thesavings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
多くの厳しい生きるか死ぬかの問題

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and
労苦する

an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark
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物質的な障害から～ではない

realities of the moment. Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance . We are貪欲という疫病から～ではない

stricken by no plagueoflocusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathersconquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for.
恵み

増大させる

Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our
目の前に先細りになる

供給の観点

doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight ofからするとthe supply. Primarily

支配する者

this is because rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own
頑迷さ

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退く

stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated.
無節操な投機家起訴されてPractices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public
opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

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True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in
信用貸しの廃れた

the pattern of an outworn

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tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money.
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誘導する

Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership,
うったえる

説教

嘆願する

they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know
利己主義者

only the rules of a generation of self- seekers . They have no vision, and when there is novision the people perish.
逃れる殿堂

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. Wemay now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in theextent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in thethrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten
束の間のin the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if
与えられるthey teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves
and to our fellow men.
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Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand
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公庁with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are
to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be
銀行業

an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust
まさに～そのものthe likeness

無情のof callous

それほど不思議ではないand selfish wrongdoing. Smallwonderthat confidence

languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on
faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live. Restoration calls,
however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now.
解決不可能なOur greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvableproblem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part bydirect recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat theemergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly
天然資源

needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.
超過Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our
産業の中心地再配置

industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution , endeavor toprovide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by

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definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power topurchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of
質流れ

the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped
直ちにby insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demandthat their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities
which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national
planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications andother utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it canbe helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act
quickly.
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Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against areturn of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and投機

credits and investments, so that there will be an end to speculation with other people's
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money; and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
These are the lines of attack. I shall presently urge upon a new Congress, in special session,
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detailed measures for their fulfillment , and I shall seek the immediate assistance of theseveral States.
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Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national

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house

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in order and making income balance outgo. Our international trade relations, though vastly
important, are in point of time and necessity secondary to the establishment of a soundnational economy. I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first. I shall spare
再調整no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency
at home cannot wait on that accomplishment.
The basic thought that guides these specific means of national' recovery is not narrowly
nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first considerations, upon the interdependence of thevarious elements in and parts of the United States; a recognition of the old and表明

permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer. It is the way torecovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that the recovery willendure.
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor;
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the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights

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神聖性of others; the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctityof hisagreements in and with a world of neighbors.
If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before
our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take but we must give as well;that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice
大義

for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made,差し出すno leadership becomes effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives andproperty to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger
大義

保証する

good. This , I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us, bind
義務を感じる者

一貫した責務upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty , [was] hitherto

evoked only intimes of armed strife.
躊躇無くWith this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of ourpeople dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.

Action in this image

and to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from ourancestors. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet
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extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essentialform. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring
political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast
expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.
It is to be hoped that the normal balance of Executive and legislative authority may be
前例無きwholly adequate to meet the unprecedented

task before us. But it may be that an

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unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure
三権の均衡

国家の行動

from that normal balance of public procedure.
政策

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken
Nation in the midst of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such othermeasures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within
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my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption.
～の場合にはBut in the eventthat the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, and in theevent that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty
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that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to
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meet the crisis; broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as thepower that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.

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信頼をおく

相応しいFor the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time.
I can do no less.
困難なWe face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity; with theclear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfactionthat comes from the stern performance of duty by old and young alike. We aim at the
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assurance of a rounded and permanent national life.
We do not distrust the future of essential democracy. The people of the United States have
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not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorousaction. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me
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the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it.
In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each andevery one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.

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