A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由
Freedom
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
联合国的宗旨是使所有会员国能够享有持久的自由和独立。
For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.
对任何一个人来说，自由对我们的尊严和成为完整的人的能力都是至关重要的。
Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.
无私是谦逊。谦逊和自由是相辅相成的。只有谦卑的人才能获得自由。
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
我们只能给我们的孩子留下两份持久的遗产。一个是根;另一方面,翅膀。
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
每当我听到有人为奴隶制辩护时，我就有一种强烈的冲动，想亲眼看看他如何对待奴隶制。
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
你们的决心、无私和勇气带来了实现自由的斗争。
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
我认为英雄是一个理解自由所带来的责任程度的人。
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
自由是人类参与自身发展的能力。这是我们塑造自己的能力。
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
你被迫独自做出的决定越多，你就越意识到自己有选择的自由。
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
想要收获自由之果的人，必须象人一样，承受维护自由的劳苦。
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
不讲道理的人是偏执狂，不会讲道理的人是傻瓜，不敢讲道理的人是奴隶。
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
没有自由，就没有艺术;艺术只活在它强加于自己的约束之下，而死于其他一切的约束之下。
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O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!
自由啊!自由啊!以你的名义犯下了何等的罪行!
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题，即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前，没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜，他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
没有男人好到不经女人同意就支配她的地步。
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
自由永远是持不同政见者的自由。
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
最勇敢的行为还是为自己着想。出声来。
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
没有自由的生活就像没有灵魂的躯体。