我们唯一害怕的就是害怕本身(2/2)
Happess lies notthe re possession of oney, it liesthe joy of achievent,the thrill of creative effort.The joy and oral stiution of work no lo be fottenthe ad chase of eva profits.These dark days will be worth all they stif they teachthat our true desty is not to be istered unto but to ister to ourselves and to our fellow n.
Regnition of the falsity of aterial wealth as the standard of suess goes handhand with the abandonnt of the false belief that public offid high political positioo be vaed only by the standards of pride of pd personal profit and there t be ao a nductbankg andbess which too often has given to a sacred trt the likeness of callo and selfish wrongdog.Sall wohat nfidenguishes, for it thrives only on hoy, on honor, on the saess of obligations, on faithful prote, on unselfish perforance, without the it ot live.
Restoration calls, however, not fesethics alohis Nation asks for a, and a now.
reatest priary task is to put people to work.This is no unsolvable proble if we face it wisely and urageoly.Itbe aoplishedpart by direct recruitg by the Governnt itself, treatg the task as we would treat the ergency of a war, but at the sa ti, through this eploynt, aoplishg greatly needed projects to stiute and reahe e of our natural resources.
Handhand with this we t frankly reghe overbance of poputionour dtrial ters and, by engagg on a national scalea redistribution, endeavor to provide a better e of the nd for those best fitted for the nd.The taskbe helped by defite efforts to raise the vaes of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities.Itbe helped by preventg realistically the tragedy of the grog loss through foreclosure of our sall hos and our fars.Itbe helped by sistehat the Federal, State, and local governnts act forthwith on the deand that their st be drastically reduced.Itbe helped by the unifyg of relief activities which today are often scattered, unenoical, and unequal.Itbe helped by national pnng for and supervision of all fors of transportation and of unications and other utilities which have a defitely public character.There are any wayswhich itbe helped, but it ever be helped rely by talkg about it.We t ad act quickly.
Fally,our progress toward a resuption of work we require o safeguards agast a return of the evils of the old order, there t be a strict supervision of all bankg and credits as, there t be ao specution with other people’ s oney, and there t be provision for ae but sound currency.
There are the les of attack.I shall presently urge upon a new gressspecial sessioailed asures for their fulfillnt, and I shall seek the idiate assistance of the several States.
Through this progra of a we address ourselves to puttg our own national hoeorder and akg e bago.Our ternational trade retions, though vastly iportant, arepot of ti and y sendary to the establishnt of a sound national enoy.I favor as a practical policy the puttg of first thgs first.I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by ternational enoic readjtnt, but the ergency at ho ot wait on that aoplishnt.
The basic thought that guides these specifis of national revery is not narrowly nationalistic.It is the sistence, as a first ion, upoerdependence of the vario elentsall parts of the Uates—a regnition of the old and peraly iportant aion of the Ari spirit of the pio is the way to revery.It is the idiate way.It is the stro assurahat the revery will endure.
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resotely respects hiself and, becae he does so, respects the rights of others—,the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreentsand with a world of neighbors.
If I read the teper of our people rrectly, we now realize as we have never realized before our terdependen each other that we ot rely take but we t give as well that if we are to go forward, we t ove as a traed and loyal ary willg to sacrifice for the good of a on disciple, becae without such disciple nress is ade, no leadership bees effective.We are, I know, ready and willg to subit our lives and property to such disciple, becae it akes possible a leadership which ais at a rger good.This I propose to offer, pledgg that the rger purposes will bd uponall as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked onlyti of ard strife.
With this pledge taken, I assu uatgly the leadership of this great ary of our people dedicated to a discipled attack upon our on probles.Athis iage and to this end is feasible uhe for of governnt which we have herited fro our anhangesephasis and arra without loss of essential for.That is why our nstitutional syste has proved itself the ost superbly endurg political is the odern world has produced.It has t every stress of vast expansion of territory, of fn wars, of bitter ternal strife, of world retions.It is to be hoped that the noral bance of executive aive authority ay be wholly adequate to et the ued task before .But it ay be that an ued deand and need for undeyed a ay call for teporary departure fro that noral bance of public procedure.
We face the arduo days that lie beforethe war urage of the national unity with the clear nsess of seekg old and precio oral vaes with thesatisfa that es fro the ste perforance of duty by old and young alike.We ai at the assurance of a rounded and pera national life.
We do not distrt the future of essential deocracy.The people of the Uates have not failed.In their hey have registered a ahat they want direct, vigoro a.They have asked for disciple and dire under leadership.They have adethe present strunt of their wishes.In the spirit of the gift I take it.
In this dedication of a Nation we hubly ask the blessg of God.May He protect ead every one of .May He guidethe days to e.