恐惧能造成最糟糕的后果，而那些好生事的人就赖这个活着。我们不断奋斗抗争，就是为了缔造一个更加完美的联邦，建立公平，保障我们国家内部的安宁，我们每天都要对抗外来与心理内在的各种恐惧。

　　Our nation came to be despite the fear of retribution from the king across the sea. America was made strong because people here could live free from the fears that made up their daily lives in whatever land they called the "Old Country". Our history books tell of conflicts taken up to free people from fear-those kept in slavery-in our own states, and to liberate whole nations under the rule of tyrants and theologies rooted in fear. The American course, at its best, as being the cultivation of a faith, that declares we will always live in peace when we are all free to worship as we choose, when we are free to express our hearts, and when we all seek a place free from fear. But we live in a world where too many of us are too ready to believe in things that do not exist-conspiracies abound, divisons are constructed and the differences between us are not celebrated for making us stronger but are calculated and programmed to set us against each other. Our faith is tested by unpredictable providence, and threatened when common sense is corrupted by specific interests.

　　我们的国家不顾对面海岸国王的惩罚，逐渐建立了起来。美国越来越强大，因为国民不用再生活在恐惧下，而这曾是他们在被其称为“旧国家”的那片土地上日常生活的全部。我们的历史书上记载了我们国家所展开的斗争，为了人们——那些身陷奴隶制度中的人们——不再恐惧，为了把整个国家从暴君和神学可怕的统治下解放出来。美国的事业和追求，在于一种信念的培养：当我们能够自由选择宗教信仰、自由表达内心想法，而且居住在没有恐惧的地方时，就是我们找到和平的时候。然而，到了今天，却有太多人愿意相信许多毫无根据的虚构说法。各种阴谋论盛行，分化对立严重，族群间的差异，并没有让我们融合壮大，反而被用来挑拨离间。我们的信念正遭受未知天命的考验，并且在常识被一些特定利益所腐蚀时受到了威胁。