Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.

  • -- John Adams 约翰·亚当斯

每年的选举一结束,奴隶制就开始了。

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Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

没有普选,没有不受限制的新闻和集会自由,没有自由的意见斗争,每一个公共机构的生命就会消亡,成为仅仅是表面的生命,其中只有官僚机构仍然是积极的因素。

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

组织自由公正的选举比选举结果本身更重要。