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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: Vaclav Havel: ‘Contamination of morality’ (3)
Vaclav Havel: ‘Contamination of morality’ (3)
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That clave Havel contamination of morality.
(2)
There are free elections and an election campaign ahead of us.
(3)
Let us not allow this struggle to dirty the so far clean face of our gentle revolution.
(4)
Let us not allow the sympathies of the world which we have won so fast to be equally rapidly lost through our becoming entangled in the jungle of skirmishes for power.
(5)
Let us not allow the desire to serve oneself to bloom once again under the fair mask of the desire to serve the common good.
(6)
It is not really important now which party, club or group will prevail in the elections.
(7)
The important thing is that the winners will be the best of us in the moral, civic, political and professional sense, regardless of their political affiliations.
(8)
The future policies and prestige of our state will depend on the personalities we select and later elect to our representative bodies.
(9)
In conclusion, I would like to say that I want to be a president who will speak less and work more to be a president who will not only look out of the windows of his airplane, but who first and foremost will always be present among his fellow citizens.
(10)
And listen to them.
(11)
Well, you may ask what kind of Republic I dream of?
(12)
Let me reply.
(13)
I dream of a Republic independent, free and democratic, of a Republic economically prosperous and yet socially just, In short, of a humane Republic which serves the individual and which therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn of a Republic of well-rounded people.
(14)
Because without such it is impossible to solve any of our problems, human, economic, ecological, social or political.
(15)
The most distinguished of my predecessors opened his first speech with a quotation from the great Czech educator Caminius.
(16)
Allow me to round off my first speech with my own paraphrase of the same statement.
(17)
People, your government has returned to you.