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自由
Liberty
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
两个多世纪以来，自由的捍卫者们冒着生命危险，因为他们知道，我们不能把自由视为理所当然。
IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
有几位先生为了证明这一动议是正确的，他们说，如果这一动议获得通过，我的生命、自由和财产都不会受到影响。
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
当然，这就是为什么你想成为一名作家——因为你有这样做的自由，但一旦你有了自由，你也有义务去做。
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
自然权利…是每个人都有自由，可以根据自己的意愿使用自己的权力，以保护自己的本性;也就是说，他自己的生命。
Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
人是自由的;然而，我们不能认为他可以随心所欲地做任何事情，因为一旦他允许自己的行为受到激情的支配，他就会变成一个奴隶。
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
要使自己的自由得到保障，就连敌人也必须保护自己不受压迫;因为如果他违反了这一义务，他就为自己树立了一个先例。
In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own.
在每一个国家、每一个时代，牧师都对自由怀有敌意;他总是忠于暴君，教唆他滥用权力，以换取自己的保护。
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
我所说的自由，是指确保每个人在做他认为是他的职责的事情时受到保护，不受权威、多数、习俗和意见的影响。
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
每一个为自己珍视良心自由的人，都有责任在他人的情况下抵制良心自由的侵犯，否则，由于环境的变化，他们的情况可能会变成他自己的情况。
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society
自由之于集体，健康之于每一个个体。没有健康，人就尝不到快乐;没有自由，社会就不能享受幸福
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
在我们的土地上自由的生存越来越依赖于在其他土地上自由的成功。我们世界和平的最大希望是在全世界扩大自由。
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
让联邦官员，无论是法官、官僚还是国会议员，把婚姻的新定义强加给人民，是一种对自由深怀敌意的社会工程行为。
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
但这就是真理的不可抗拒的本性，它所要求的一切，它所需要的一切，就是显现的自由。
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.
所有人都有平等的自由权利、财产权利和受法律保护的权利。
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
自由不会降临到人民头上;一个民族必须奋起争取自由;这是一种必须先赢得才能享受的祝福。
Where liberty is, there is my country.
哪里有自由，哪里就有我的国家。
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
奴役一个人的自由和全世界的自由都处于危险之中。
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
那些愿意放弃基本自由而换取一点暂时安全的人，既不配享有自由，也不配享有安全。