A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.
我们的文化就是一系列的制衡。我们处于暴政和自由之间的战争，这是一系列的钟摆摆动。
With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.
关于投票问题，值得指出的是，没有一次赞成改革的会议没有强烈坚持投票。
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
为了认识到这个新世界，我们必须把自由和平等的价值观置于一切其他价值观之上- -高于个人财富、技术力量和民族主义。
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
繁荣还是平均主义——你必须做出选择。我支持自由——你永远不会实现真正的平等:你只是为了一个幻想而牺牲繁荣。
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
需要……选举人票按普选票数的比例分配。 需要……选举人票按普选票数的比例分配。
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
这就是我们所缺少的。我们丢失的论点。我们丢失的辩论。我们丢失的对话录。我们错过了很多东西。相反,我们接受。
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
黑人在什么时候、在什么条件下可以自由投票?他什么时候才能真正拥有那些长期以来一直属于他的全部公民权利?
European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
欧洲公民希望在欧盟内部和欧元内部也有一个公平的体系，这就是为什么我们必须有相当严格的纪律。
Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.
在和平的主持下，我们将建立全面的复兴，它将成为那些希望在更大的阿拉伯家园仿效它的人的榜样。
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
就我个人而言，我相信自决，但是在一个南非的范围内- -因此，我的自决是建立在本区域和我国人民的基础上的。
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
大多数妇女不希望她们的社会和文明状况有任何重大的改变，这只能证明她们是不加考虑的习俗的奴隶。
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
雅典人接受任何人的建议都是正确的，因为每个人都有责任分享这种卓越，否则就根本不可能有城市。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
真正的危险是自由被蚕食，为了权宜之计，被部分蚕食。
The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
唯一不遵守多数决定原则的是一个人的良心。
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。
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。