A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
给我三十年的平等遗产分配和新闻自由，我就会给你一个共和国。
I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
我希望正义无处不在，它将被视为理所当然，就像今天不公正被视为理所当然一样。
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
人们直到很晚才认识到，除非自由是普遍的，否则它只是一种延伸的特权。
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
我支持个人的绝对自主权，一个有能力的成年女性拥有绝对自主权。这是她的选择。
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
任何侵犯人类不可剥夺权利的法律本质上都是不公正和专制的;这根本不是一条法律。
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
确保你同意的人能说话的唯一方法就是支持你不同意的人的权利。
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
在一个女性认为自己平等的国家里，她们不愿意看到男性自己做主。
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense.
和平不需要任何代价，但它所带来的好处比任何代价高昂的胜利都要大得多。
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
我们的国家可以比作一座新房子。我们缺少许多东西，但我们拥有最宝贵的东西——自由!
There is but one task for all--- For each one life to give. What stands if freedom fall? Who dies if England live?
对所有人来说，只有一个任务——每个人的生命都要奉献。如果自由沦陷了，还有什么支撑?如果英格兰还活着，谁会死?
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
自由主义者所主张的只是，正常成年人之间的差异并不意味着不同的基本权利。
Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
不要试图找出选举不可能的理由。努力使它们成为可能，它们就会成为可能。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
男性反对女性解放的历史也许比解放本身的故事更有趣。
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
你可能会认为河流会倒流，就像任何生来就满足于被囚禁的人一样。
Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.
你看，我们的人民正在逐渐获得他们一直认为是他们应得的权力。
The mountains look on Marathon--- And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.
山望马拉松——马拉松望大海;独自在那里沉思了一个小时，我梦见希腊可能仍然是自由的。