A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
拥有露面和发言的权利是生存、尊严和自由的基础。
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
任何拒绝在校外发言的人都不配在校园里被倾听。
Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
没有自由的幸福，或没有幸福的自由。没有第三种选择。
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
我相信公共教育是一场新的民权斗争，我支持特许学校。
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
投票是一项权利，只有那些花时间了解相关问题的人才能行使得最好。
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
没有必要把君主从暴民中分离出来;所有的权威都同样糟糕。
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
贫富之间的不平衡是所有共和国中最古老和最致命的弊病。
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
一点自由是不存在的。你们要么都自由，要么不自由。
We have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.
我们从来没有筑起一堵墙把我们的人民关在里面，防止他们离开我们。
Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.
在投票问题上，西班牙人总是表现出极大的成熟和常识。
After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it.
革命后我获得了自由。我赞成制宪会议，现在仍然支持它。
I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.
我相信这个国家建立在一个简单的承诺之上:我们每个人都应该得到公平的机会。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Liberties aren't given, they are taken.
自由不是被给予的，而是被夺走的。
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -- moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -- but no opinion.
意见是在公开讨论和公开辩论的过程中形成的，在没有形成意见的机会的地方，可能会有情绪——群众的情绪和个人的情绪，个人的情绪和群众的情绪一样反复无常和不可靠——但没有意见。
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。
I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.
除了人，我不知道还有什么能安全储存社会的终极力量。如果我们认为他们不够开明，补救措施不是剥夺他们的权力，而是通过教育来告知他们。
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。
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。