A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
每个公民都应该当兵。这是希腊人和罗马人的情况，而且必须是每一个自由国家的情况。
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
我并不担心我们实验的结果会是，人们可以被信任在没有主人的情况下管理自己。
Don’t be surprised, If I demur, for, be advised, My passport’s green. No glass of ours was ever raised To toast The Queen.
如果我反对，请不要惊讶，因为我的护照是绿色的。我们从来没有举杯向女王敬酒。
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
唯一能克服一种思想和信仰的力量是另一种更好的思想和信仰，积极地、无畏地坚持下去。
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
我认为社会有权自卫，正如个人有权攻击他不同意的东西一样。
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
我们必须为自由而规划，而不仅仅是为安全而规划，如果没有其他原因，只有自由才能使安全得到保障。
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
我认为最高法院确实有权力，但并没有被使用，来宣布毯子对所有人，所有成年人都是正确的。
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
按照目前的情况，我们这些出生就有幸成为公民的人不必做太多事情。对我们的要求很少。
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
欧洲的主要成就是和平，我们常常忘记这一点，因为它已成为欧洲人习以为常的事情。
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
地球上最小的少数是个体。那些否认个人权利的人不能自称是少数群体的捍卫者。
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
个人对集体努力的承诺——这就是团队工作、公司工作、社会工作、文明工作的原因。
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。
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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。
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 call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
我们自称是一个自由的国家，然而我们却让自己在酒店门口被一个男人告知我们可以乘坐什么出租车，不可以乘坐什么出租车，仅仅因为他穿了一件鼓少校的制服。
A man without a vote is man without protection.
没有投票权的人就是没有保护的人。
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。