A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
人民自己，而不是他们的仆人，可以安全地推翻他们深思熟虑的决定。
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。
The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.
人类自由的最大障碍是绝大多数人不希望自由。
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.
全国初选将使人民振奋，并使他们在选举结果中获得更大的利益。
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
显然不可阻挡和不可战胜的压迫不会引起反抗，而是会使人屈服。
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
投票是赋予被统治者同意原则以生命的基本行为。
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
只有在事先知道其效果是有益的情况下才给予的自由不是自由。
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal and women are created equal.
我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等，女人生而平等。
It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
人们可能感到惊讶的是，我主张改革联合国，而不是废除它。
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
不要让那些在你之前以如此沉重的打击赢得自由的人从你身边溜走。
Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.
因为作为一个年轻人，我渴望看到黑人获得自由，我渴望看到有人为我们挺身而出。
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
当人民为自由而斗争时，除了新主人之外，他们很少从胜利中得到任何东西。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Every election is determined by the people who show up.
每一次选举都是由选民决定的。
Obvious and inexorable oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
无法克服的明显和无情的压迫不会引起反抗，而是会使人屈服。
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。
Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.
是的，为了把世界从第三次世界大战的可怕破坏中拯救出来，和平能够而且必须赢得。
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
自由永远是持不同政见者的自由。
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。