A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.
所有人都有平等的自由权利、财产权利和受法律保护的权利。
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
现在一整天都没有时间去写备忘录了。去吧!永远的自由和独立。
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
你不能通过剥夺人们的主动性和独立性来培养品格和勇气。
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.
我们不会试图取代我们的立国原则,我们将重新应用我们的立国原则。
The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
真正的共和国:人,他们的权利,仅此而已;妇女,她们的权利,仅此而已。
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
自由已经付出了太多的鲜血和痛苦,不能以廉价的言辞换取自由。
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
最高法院不是选举产生的,因此它不是社会政策的适当仲裁者。
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
总之,我更喜欢共和制度,因为它更接近上帝的制度。
The more I think about it, a revolution is inevitable. Guess just need to suffer a bit more.
我越想,一场革命是不可避免的。我猜只是需要多受点苦。
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
一个派系的窃窃私语不可能压倒一个国家的声音。
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
三千多年来,人们一直在为他们信仰的模式而争论不休。
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
只要国家存在,就不可能有自由;有自由就没有国家。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。