A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
我们不能指望在羽毛床上从专制变成自由。
The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
欧盟是世界上最成功的促进和平的发明。
Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
征服者永远不会，永远不会为了带来自由而征服一个国家。他们把控制。
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
法律永远不能使人自由;只有男人才能使法律自由。
I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
我认为，自由和文明的社会不会孤立地关押囚犯。
We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.
我们就像一个第三世界的国家，当涉及到我们的一些选举实践。
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
当男人受到压迫时，那是一场悲剧。当女性受到压迫时，这是传统。
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
每个人都在期待一场他们能有所作为并参与其中的选举。
My definition of a free society is a society in which it is safe to be unpopular.
我对自由社会的定义是，在这个社会里，不受欢迎是安全的。
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
当自由从未被夺走时，你很容易把它视为理所当然。
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
自由可能因滥用自由而受到威胁，但也可能因滥用权力而受到威胁。
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
一个崇尚自由、平等和法治的坚韧不拔的民族将继续存在下去。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
卓越的天才使人走旁人走过的路变得平坦。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
不同意见的自由并不局限于无关紧要的事。那将仅仅是自由的影子。对其实质内容的检验是，有权对触及现有秩序核心的事物持不同意见。
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。
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
我们自称是一个自由的国家，然而我们却让自己在酒店门口被一个男人告知我们可以乘坐什么出租车，不可以乘坐什么出租车，仅仅因为他穿了一件鼓少校的制服。
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。
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则，即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风，但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利，而平等的法律必须保护这些权利，侵犯这些权利就是压迫。