A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由
Freedom
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
如果我们在这里失去自由，就没有地方可逃。这是地球上的最后一站。
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
书就像被囚禁的灵魂，直到有人把它们从书架上取下来，释放它们。
I know not what course others may take but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
我不知道别人会怎么做，但对我来说，要么给我自由，要么让我死。
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
一点自由是不存在的。你们要么都自由，要么不自由。
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
工作还在继续，事业还在继续，希望还在，梦想还在。
I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.
我不接受委托，我喜欢随心所欲地创作。
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
上帝只有一个好的定义:允许其他自由存在的自由。
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
我代表言论自由，做你相信的事，追逐你的梦想。
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
当一个电影工作者给自己买一些报纸时，他几乎和小说家一样拥有同样的自由。
There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.
在人类的事务中，很少有重大事件是由他们自己的选择引起的。
Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.
没有学习的自由总是危险的，没有自由的学习总是徒劳的。
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
当你出去为自由和真理而战时，你永远不应该穿上你最好的裤子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
‘Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she With silent lips. ‘Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door.’
“保留古老的土地，你那传奇的盛况!”她用沉默的嘴唇喊道。“给我你那疲倦的、可怜的、挤成一团渴望自由呼吸的群众，给我你那熙熙攘攘的岸边可怜的垃圾。把这些，无家可归的人，被暴风雨袭击的人，寄给我;我在金色的门边举起我的灯。”
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
说任何一个人都不适合自由，就是让贫困成为他们的选择，说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
只有首先证明自己是可以接受的，我们才会考虑如何被别人接受。
All good things are wild and free.
一切美好的事物都是狂野而自由的。
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
一个将平等置于自由之上的社会将两者都得不到。一个将自由置于平等之前的社会将在这两方面都得到高度重视。
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
自由——自由地走，没有优越。