总统就职演说精萃 :美国第十二任总统扎卡里•泰勒就职演讲

　　As American freemen we can not but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessing of civil and political liberty, but at the same time we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliance with foreign nations. In all disputes between conflicting governments it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral. While our geographical position, the genius of our institutions and our people, the advancing spirit of civilization, and, above all, the dictates of religion direct us to the cultivation of peaceful and friendly relations with all other powers. It is to be hoped that no international question can now arise which a government confident in its own strength, and resolved to protect its own just rights may not settle by wise negotiation; and it eminently becomes a government like our own, founded on the morality, and intelligence of its citizens and upheld by their affections, to exhaust every resort of honorable diplomacy before appealing to arms. In the conduct of our foreign relations I shall conform to these views, as I believe them essential to the best interests and the true honor of the country.