A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.
这是对人们拥有私人财产这一概念的蓄意而又相当坦率的攻击。
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
如果人生来就是自由的，那么只要他们还保持自由，他们就不会形成任何善恶的概念。
I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.
我认为我们必须承认，在全世界范围内，愚蠢的人占了绝大多数。
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
我认为，当女性成为真正的人，并向她们敞开整个世界的大门时，那才是真正的荣耀。
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
在全球化时代的今天，不存在同一民族国家之间的边界问题。
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.
今天生活在自由中的人比人类历史上任何时候都多。
I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.
我成长在一个很多人认为男女不应该总是平等对待的时代。
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
我希望人们记住我是一个想要自由的人……所以其他人也会自由。
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
共和国是开放和宽容的，但也知道如何和何时变得坚定，并使其价值观得到尊重。
The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
女人越自由，男人就越自由。因为当你奴役某人时，你就是被奴役了。
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
想要收获自由之果的人，必须象人一样，承受维护自由的劳苦。
The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.
重要的是自由。当人们选择他们想要的东西时，这对他们和我们都有好处。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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 don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.
我不认为有太多的文学作品。我认为大部分都是基于种族的，人们不认为这是阶级文学。
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 have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
我们已经学会说，只有把善扩展到整个社会，才能使任何一个人或任何一个阶层得到保障。但是，我们还没有学会给这句话加上一句:除非所有的人、所有的阶级都为一件好事做出贡献，否则我们甚至不能肯定它是否值得拥有。
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。
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。