A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由
Liberty
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
世界上大多数人想要的是安全,而不是自由。
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
当美德自由时,某种程度上罪恶也自由了。
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
我们共同的自由因共同的悲哀而神圣。
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
汹涌的自由之海从来都有波浪。
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
你给予的自由越多,你就会拥有越多。
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
每一代人都必须为自己的时代重建自由。
Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.
自由是我们给公民的最珍贵的礼物。
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
自由和联合,现在和永远,是不可分割的。
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
我宁愿不做国王也不愿丧失我的自由。
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
自由:想象力最宝贵的财富之一。
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
集中的权力一直是自由的敌人。
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
财产无疑是人类与自由一样真实的权利。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
如果自由意味着什么,那就是告诉人们他们不想听的话的权利。
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
任何形式的自由很少会突然丧失。
If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.
如果你想保持自由,我建议你不要与你的辩护者对抗。
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
肤浅的人认为自由是对一切法律和约束的解放。智者在其中看到的恰恰相反,是强有力的法律法则。
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
有什么比享受自由带来的快乐更能使人幸福呢?
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。