A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
我们发现左边和右边有同样多的东西可以撕扯。极左派和极右派对我们来说是同一个人。
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
我既捍卫言论自由，也捍卫社会反击言论自由的权利。我必须为不同付出代价。这是自然的事情。
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
我们永远不能肯定，我们竭力压制的意见是一种错误的意见;如果我们能肯定，扼杀它仍然是一种罪恶。
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
自由主义首先意味着解放——从一个人的恐惧、不足、偏见、歧视和贫困中解放出来。
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
自由不会降临到人民头上;一个民族必须奋起争取自由;这是一种必须先赢得才能享受的祝福。
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
在铁幕后面，有迹象表明暴政正陷入困境，并提醒人们，暴政的结构脆弱，正如其表面坚硬一样。
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
无论我们是新经销商、老经销商、自由联盟成员还是红色联盟成员，无论我们是否同意，我们仍然有权思考和表达我们的感受。
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
在一个妇女的权利和潜力受到限制的社会里，没有人能真正自由。他可能有权力，但他不会有自由。
I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.
我希望这种对这个问题的看法可能是错误的，因为在我看来，妇女获得选举权的可能性不大。
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
我们不会听信那些惯于说人民的声音就是上帝的声音的人，因为群众的声音近乎疯狂。
We can now look forward with something like confidence to the time when war between civilised nations will be considered as antiquated as a duel.
我们现在可以满怀信心地展望文明国家之间的战争将被视为像决斗一样过时的时代。
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
联邦选举的投票和计票是高度分散和多变的，没有统一的选票，也没有多少国家标准。
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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。
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
在所有人的想法都一样的地方，没有人想得太多。
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。
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
离婚是一份只有两个签名者的独立宣言。
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。