○ 英语演讲稿：名人演讲：A Tale of Two Cities范文 ○
we democrats believe in something else. we democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact. and, we have more than once. ever since franklin roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees -- wagon train after wagon train -- to new frontiers of education, housing, peace; the whole family aboard, constantly reaching out to extend and enlarge that family; lifting them up into the wagon on the way; blacks and hispanics, and people of every ethnic group, and native americans -- all those struggling to build their families and claim some small share of america.
for nearly 50 years we carried them all to new levels of comfort, and security, and dignity, even affluence. and remember this, some of us in this room today are here only because this nation had that kind of confidence. and it would be wrong to forget that.
so, here we are at this convention to remind ourselves where we come from and to claim the future for ourselves and for our children. today our great democratic party, which has saved this nation from depression, from fascism, from racism, from corruption, is called upon to do it again -- this time to save the nation from confusion and division, from the threat of eventual fiscal disaster, and most of all from the fear of a nuclear holocaust.
that's not going to be easy. mo udall is exactly right, it's not going to be easy. in order to succeed, we must answer our opponent's polished and appealing rhetoric with a more telling reasonableness and rationality.
we must win this case on the merits. we must get the american public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship - to reality, to the hard substance of things. and we will do that not so much with speeches that sound good as with speeches that are good an
