A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自由
Liberty
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
教育比常备军更能保障自由。
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
自由，当它开始生根时，是一株迅速生长的植物。
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
当没有人为了得到这种自由而死的时候，这种自由就会变得很容易。
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
国家从哪里开始，个人自由就从哪里结束，反之亦然。
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
因为自由除了将意志毫无阻碍地转化为行动之外，还能是什么呢?
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
自由是你唯一不能拥有的东西，除非你把它给别人。
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
在每个国家、每个时代，牧师都对自由怀有敌意。
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
没有人民的普遍知识，自由就不能得到维护。
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
没有自由的秩序和没有秩序的自由同样具有破坏性。
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
胆怯的人宁愿选择专制的平静，也不愿选择汹涌的自由之海。
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
个人自由是人类进步的必要前提。
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
平等是自由的灵魂;事实上，没有自由就没有自由。
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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。
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
我知道我的国家还没有完善。有时，我们一直在努力履行我们所有人民享有自由和平等的承诺。我们也犯过错误，有时我们在世界各地的行动并没有达到我们的最佳意图。
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。
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
人们对自由有一种热情，这种热情使人的天性在勇敢和英勇的行为中超越自我。
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。
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
世界上最大的权利就是犯错的权利。