There is fear that the human race has exhausted its margin for error and that we are sliding into another great conflict that will cancel out thousands of years of human progress. And people are fearful because they don’t want to lose the things that are more important than peace itself—moral, democratic, and spiritual values.

人类正在滑向一场大战，这场战争将会把人类数千年取得的进步毁之一旦，这是由人类犯错底线被突破而导致的恐惧所引起的。这是因为，对于人类而言，道德、民主和精神比和平更重要。

The problem confronting us today is far more serious than the destiny of any political system or even of any nation. 

人类的命运是我们今天所面临的问题，这比任何政治体制和任何民族的命运更为重要。

The problem is the destiny of man: first, whether we can make this planet safe for man; second, whether we can make it fit for man. 

首先，我们是否能够把地球建人类的安全之所；其次，我们是否能够把地球建成适宜人类居住的地方。

This I believe—that man today has all the resources to shatter his fears and go on to the greatest golden age in history, an age which will provide the conditions for human growth and for the development of the good that resides within man, whether in his individual or his collective being. 

我相信，对于消除恐惧并走向历史上最伟大的黄金时代，人类拥有各种各样的办法。不管人是作为个体还是人类群体的一员，这个时代都将会为人类的进步和善良本性的形成提供条迹然后，人类只需要理性地调动智慧和良知，就可以运用这些办法了。真理渗透在我们的生活中。站在海岸上，观看颠簸于大海之上的船帆，是一种乐趣；站在城堡垛口，观看激战中的战场，也是一种乐趣；

And he has only to mobilize his rational intelligence and his conscience to put these resources to work.

然而，什么也比不上站在真理的前哨，洞察山谷中的谬误、彷徨、迷雾与风暴，这更令人欢欣。