A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由主义者
Liberals
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
自由主义者觉得他们的财产不值得拥有。保守派认为他们所偷的一切都是他们应得的。
You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.
你可以和自由主义者打高尔夫球，和他们做邻居，一起出去吃饭。我只是不想让他们掌权。
The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
人们挨饿是因为他们上面的人吃了太多的税粮。这是他们挨饿的唯一原因。
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
自由主义是人民的信任，经过审慎的磨炼;保守主义，对人的不信任，被恐惧所调和。
Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.
保守主义更能坦率地看到别人的价值;改革更倾向于保持和增加自己的影响力。
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
通常，那些胡言乱语的自由主义者的嘴是可爱的，但在战争中，他们本能的愚蠢行为是危及生命的。
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
我们这些自由进步的人知道，穷人与我们在任何意义上都是平等的，除了与我们平等之外。
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
我们一直在进步或倒退。生命中没有静止不动的东西。
Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.
自由主义者似乎没有带着极右翼那种天赐自信的光环来解决潜在的问题。
You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the ten commandments. We'd have had the ten suggestions.
你知道人们常说:如果上帝是一个自由主义者，我们就不会有十诫。我们应该有十个建议。
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
春天和夏天，我们是改革者;在秋天和冬天，我们站在老;早上是改革者，晚上是服务器。
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
自由主义者声称希望听取其他观点，但当他们发现有其他观点时，感到震惊和愤怒。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
政治不是左右之争;它是关于顶部和底部的。
I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.
我不介意别人叫我自由派。我只是觉得这不是真的。
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
据说，自由主义者对别人的钱很慷慨，除非涉及到国家存亡的问题，他们更愿意对别人的自由和安全慷慨。
Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.
自由主义者认为他们再也不能从媒体那里得到公平的待遇了。
The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
进步主义者的工作就是不断犯错。保守派的职责是防止错误被纠正。
The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.
对我来说，最大的突破是，一旦我不再讨厌保守派，能够真正看到他们在哪些方面是正确的，他们向我展示了自由派在很多方面是错误的。但与此同时，我认为自由主义者在某些方面是正确的，而保守派却难以看到。