Please find me a link online to a complete transcript of the speech by
Cardinal Ratzinger on November 6, 1992 where he was inducted into the
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France.

Here are quotes from the speech: 

?imposed or even arbitrarily defined by external coercion.?

?Democracy in America has always made a strong impression on me,?

?an order of liberties in freedom lived in community, the great
political thinker [Tocqueville] saw as an essential condition the fact
that a basic moral conviction was alive in America, one which,
nourished by Protestant Christianity, supplied the foundations for
institutions and democratic mechanisms.?

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 25 Apr 2005 15:49 PDT

I've found the complete transcript of the speech in French.  Would
this be sufficient?

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Clarification of Question by americanenterprise-ga on 25 Apr 2005 16:36 PDT

Yes that would be sufficient. Thank you. Please send me the actual link to the text.

Hello americanenterprise,

The link is:

"Installation du Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger comme associé étranger --
séance du vendredi 6 novembre 1992" ["Réponse du Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger -- Membre associé étranger," at pp. 11-13]
Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
http://www.asmp.fr/fiches_academiciens/textacad/92-11InstallationRatzinger.pdf

- justaskscott


Search strategy:

After trial and error, found link to Académie des Sciences morales et
politiques by searching Google for:

"institut de france"

Found link to text on ASMP site under "Actualités."

Done in about 6 hours. Excellent response. Thank you!