A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
自由的人民，请记住这句格言:我们可以获得自由，但一旦失去自由，就永远无法恢复。
Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.
任何不支持人类进化核心的领导者都不值得被追随。
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.
没有律法，各人按自己的意见行义，这就是最小的自由。
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
我们的祖国就是全世界。我们的法律就是自由。我们只有一个想法，我们心中的革命。
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
男性特权和权利正在痛苦地死去;没有人不经过奋斗就放弃权力。
We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.
我们这些亲欧洲的国际主义者希望在一种社会模式下把各国人民团结起来。
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
表达自由是矩阵，是几乎所有其他形式的自由不可或缺的条件。
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
在高卢有两个等级，贵族和祭司，而人民，凯撒说，都是奴隶。
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
非洲人要求、想要以一人一票为基础的选举权。他们想要政治独立。
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
我们的选票飞来飞去，有人用手计票，有人用卡车运抵，天知道谁来保管这些选票。
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
垄断控制在自由社会中是例外;在封闭的社会里，它们一直是规则。
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。
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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。
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
任何一个为了获得一点安全而放弃一点自由的社会，都不配拥有这两样东西，也不会两样都失去。
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.
投票站的连接是一个伟大的水平;所有的邻居——富人、穷人、老人、年轻人、老朽和精力充沛的人——都在一天之内出现了。
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。
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
那些愿意放弃基本自由而换取一点暂时安全的人，既不配享有自由，也不配享有安全。
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
真正的危险是自由被蚕食，为了权宜之计，被部分蚕食。