A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
一个将平等置于自由之上的社会将两者都得不到。一个将自由置于平等之前的社会将在这两方面都得到高度重视。
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
我一直坚信平等。从来没有人能告诉我，我不能做什么，因为我是一个女孩。
We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
我们真的必须愿意去发现我们是谁，而不是为了我们被剥夺的平等权利而反抗，而这些权利是我们应得的。
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
的确，有些人可能会谈论、写作、为自由而战，并在表面上假装自由;但只有自由思想者才是真正的自由。
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
我们谈论政客们出现在公共生活中，但他们很少出现在公共场所，在那里每个人都可以自由地以公民身份出现。
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner!
所有自由的人，无论他们住在哪里，都是柏林的公民。因此，作为一个自由的人，我为我在柏林感到骄傲!
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。
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
我们都应尊重彼此的原则，不做任何会被视为压迫任何一部分人民的行为。
Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.
日复一日，我们必须记住，我们可以把自由视为理所当然。日复一日，我们必须牢记自由与其他价值观之间的联系。
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
在历史的大部分时间里，社会都不是自由的。这是一个非常罕见的自由社会。人类社会的默认状态是暴政。
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。
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
不!在人权和自由问题上，在一个象二加二等于四这样不言而喻的问题上，不需要任何书面权威。
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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。
Liberties aren't given, they are taken.
自由不是被给予的，而是被夺走的。
I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.
除了人，我不知道还有什么能安全储存社会的终极力量。如果我们认为他们不够开明，补救措施不是剥夺他们的权力，而是通过教育来告知他们。
I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.
我知道，对欧洲和世界的和平来说，最重要的问题莫过于合理削减军备，特别是在欧洲和全世界的海军军备。