A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
自由啊，对于一个没有你的人来说，谈论你是可怕的。
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
普选在原则上是合理的。基本元素是正确的。
There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall.
国会里有那么多妇女，看起来像个购物中心。
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
一个国家可能在一天内失去自由，一个世纪也不会失去。
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
对思想唯一有效的审查是人们不听的权利。
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
对于那些与我们意见一致的人来说，我们很容易相信言论自由。
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
自由是在讨论、异议和辩论的铁砧上锤出来的。
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。
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
投票率低表明去投票的人更少。
Every subject’s duty is the King’s, but every subject’s soul is his own.
每个臣民的责任都是国王的，但每个臣民的灵魂都是他自己的。
Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.
无知最终是想要自由的人民最大的敌人。
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom.
除了好人，没有人会真心热爱自由;其余的人不爱自由。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
新闻自由本身不是目的，而是实现自由社会的一种手段。
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
的确，有些人可能会谈论、写作、为自由而战，并在表面上假装自由;但只有自由思想者才是真正的自由。
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
没有人是自由的，除非每个人都自由。
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。
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
在一个普遍存在欺骗的时代，讲真话变成了一种革命性的行为。