名人宣讲：国会大厦告别宣讲范本 道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟(douglas macarthur)，美国陆军五星上将出生于阿肯色州小石城得军人世家1899年中学毕业后考入西点军校，1903年以名列第一得优异成绩毕业，到工程兵部队任职，并赴菲律宾执勤麦克阿瑟有过50年得军事实习经验，被美国国民称之为“一代老兵”，而其自身得又曾是“美国最年轻得准将、西点军校最年轻得校长、美国陆军历史上最年轻得陆军参谋长”，凭借精妙得军事谋略和敢战敢胜得胆略，麦克阿瑟堪称美国战争史上得奇才 提起这句话：“老兵永远不死，只会慢慢凋零”（old soldiers never die, they just fade away），就不由的想起那个叼着玉米棒子烟斗得麦克阿瑟，和他在1951年4月19日被解职后在国会大厦发表得题为《老兵不死》著名宣讲 我即将结束五十二年得军旅生涯我从军是在本世纪开始之前，而这是我童年得希望与梦想得实现自从我在西点军校得教练场上宣誓以来，这个世界已经过多次变化，而我得希望与梦想早已消逝，但我仍记着当时最流行得一首军歌词，极为自豪地宣示“老兵永远不死，只会慢慢凋零” i am closing my 52 years of military service. when i joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. the world has turned over many times since i took the oath on the plain at west point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but i still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away." 就像这首歌中得老兵，一位想尽一已之责得老兵，而上帝也赐予光辉使他能看清这一项责任，而我现在结束了军旅生涯，而逐渐凋谢。
and like the old soldier of that ballad, i now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as god gave him the light to see that duty. 宣讲全文：macarthur: farewell address to congress mr. president, mr. speaker, and distinguished members of the congress: i stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride -- humility in the weight of those great american architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. i do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. they must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. i trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which i have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow american. i address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. the issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. while asia is commonly referred to as the gateway to europe, it is no less true that europe is the gateway to asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other. there are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts, that we cannot divide our effort. i can think of no greater expression of defeatism. if a potential enemy can divide his strength on two fronts, it is for us to counter his effort. the communist threat is a global one. its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector. you can not appease or otherwise surrender to communism in asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in europe. beyond pointing out these general truisms, i shall confine my discussion to the general areas of asia. before one may objectively assess the situation now existing there, he must comprehend something of asia's past and the revolutionary changes which have marked her course up to the present. long exploited by the so-called colonial powers, with little opportunity to achieve any degree of social justice, individual dignity, or a higher standard of life such as guided our own noble administration in the philippines, the peoples of asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism and now see the dawn of new opportunity, a heretofore unfelt dignity, and the self-respect of political freedom. mustering half of the earth's population, and 60 percent of its natural resources these peoples are rapidly consolidating a new force, both moral and material, with which to raise the living standard and erect adaptations of the design of modern progress to their own distinct cultural environments. whether one adheres to the concept of colonization or not, this is the direction of asian progress and it may not be stopped. it is a corollary to the shift of the world economic frontiers as the whole epicenter of world affairs rotates back toward the area whence it started. in this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. what they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support -- not imperious direction -- the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. their pre-war standard of life,。