A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
所有人都是平等的，这是一个命题，在正常情况下，从来没有一个理智的人对此表示过赞同。
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
或许，我们自己对欧洲一体化程度的反对——更不用说对欧洲一体化程度的反对了——是众所周知的。
There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
有些人认为应该把福利国家扩展到不同的种族、民族和信仰。
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man, for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.
让女人分享权利，她将仿效男人的美德，因为她必须在解放时变得更加完美。
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
为了保护我们的自由，我们似乎不得不在短期内放弃一些自由。
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.
国际联盟还没有达到其最热情的倡导者所期望的目标，这是一个老生常谈的问题。
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。
I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.
我希望你们记住，当我们的白宫反映出我们最好的一面，而不是欧洲最糟糕的一面。
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
我们的国家!在与外国交往中，愿她永远是对的;但我们的国家，无论对错。
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
我宁愿属于一个自由的穷国，也不愿属于一个不再热爱自由的富国。
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
每当我们剥夺了我们憎恨的人的自由，我们就为我们所爱的人开辟了失去自由的道路。
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
我知道我是在大多数黑人都在地狱里挣扎的时候做的，但只要他们不自由，我就不自由。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.
所有国家，无论大小、强弱，都是联合国的平等会员国。
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。
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。
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。
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
没有那个人的同意，没有一个人有能力管理另一个人。