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自由
Liberty
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
我喜欢在装饰世界的美丽事物中漫步;但是私人财产，或者任何个人财产，我都会减少，因为它们会夺走我的自由。
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
随着自由和智慧的增长，人们越来越反对与常识相悖的神学教条，这些教条伤害了灵魂中最温柔的情感。
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
一想到要脱离联邦，我就不寒而栗。我虔诚地祈求上帝不要发生这样的事情，如果真的发生了，从那天起，我就会看到我们的自由消失了。
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
也许那些热爱人类的人的使命就是让人们嘲笑真理，让真理发笑，因为唯一的真理在于学会把自己从对真理的疯狂激情中解放出来。
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
我一直告诉自己要冷静下来，对事情不要那么感兴趣，不要那么激动，但我仍然非常关心新闻自由、言论自由和公正。
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
扩张的需要是人类真正的本能，就像植物需要光明，或者人类自己需要直立行走一样。对自由的热爱只是人类扩张的本能。
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
对我们这一代人来说，生命是核的生存，自由是人权，追求幸福是一个其资源用于滋养其居民的物质和精神的星球。
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
只有当所有的人，男人和女人，都同样自由的时候，我才是真正自由的。他人的自由非但不会否定或限制我的自由，相反，它是我自由的必要前提和确证。
Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
学术机构应该是每一个自由人民最喜爱的对象。它们使公众意识到，这是防止狡诈和危险侵犯公众自由的最佳保障。
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等;他们被造物主赋予某些不可剥夺的权利;其中包括生命、自由和对幸福的追求。
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
警惕公众自由。怀疑每一个接近那颗宝石的人。不幸的是，除了赤裸裸的武力外，没有任何东西能够保护它。一旦你放弃了这种力量，你就不可避免地会被毁灭。
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
全世界普通人的生命、自由、财产和幸福完全掌握在少数几个人的手中，他们从未见过，也从未听说过复杂的争吵。
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This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
这个国家孕育于自由之中，奉行的原则包括:诚实的人可以诚实地提出异议;如果他们都能说出自己的想法，大多数人就能分清是非。
I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.
我想要孩子，但现在我终于拥有的自由，价值太高了。
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
过去三十年来，有钱人一直统治着我们。他们打着奴隶主的旗号，企图破坏我们的自由。
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
要想拥有自由，就必须限制自由。
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。
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
假定一个人可能会滥用自然的自由，就剥夺他的这种自由，人们会发现这是一种不公正和不明智的嫉妒。