A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
和平是平静中的自由。
The greatest luxury is being free.
最大的奢侈就是自由。
Freedom is an incremental process.
自由是一个渐进的过程。
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
意见相左时,自由就会响起。
The minority yields to the majority!
少数服从多数!
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
没有人是自由的,除非每个人都自由。
One man with God is always a majority.
与上帝同在的人永远是大多数。
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
每一条法律都是对自由的侵犯。
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
和平是可能的,真理是不惜一切代价的。
I have great faith in the jury system.
我对陪审团制度很有信心。
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
选票比子弹更有威力。
No annihilation without representation.
没有代表就没有消灭。
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沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
那个社会里的人能走进城镇广场,畅所欲言,而不用担心因为自己的观点而受到惩罚吗?如果是这样,那么这个社会就是一个自由的社会。如果没有,那就是一个充满恐惧的社会。
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
地球飞船上没有乘客。我们都是船员。
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。
All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.
所有国家,无论大小、强弱,都是联合国的平等会员国。
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
在所有人的想法都一样的地方,没有人想得太多。
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。