A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
原子弹使未来战争的前景变得难以忍受。它把我们带到了山口的最后几级台阶上;除此之外，还有一个不同的国家。
We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.
我们必须从各个方面与保守派斗争，不仅是右翼，还有不想改变任何事情的左翼保守派。
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
如果有什么事情是不墨守成规者比墨守成规者更讨厌的，那就是另一个不墨守成规者，他不符合主流的不墨守成规的标准。
Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.
中央集权是不好的。偏见应该是为了自由。没有中央权威，就会有很多小权威，我们知道应该信任哪些。
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.
在这里，我们遇到两个相互冲突的概念，我们必须在我们这个时代认真对待它们:国家团结的概念和国际合作的概念。
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
这种最高层次的政治讨论自由是西方文明与古典古代文明的共同点，但没有其他共同点。
The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.
这部剧是一部讽刺剧，它给了我们想做什么就做什么的自由。讽刺是一个神奇的词，它抹去一切罪恶。媒体嫉妒这种自由。
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。
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
拥有不同历史、经济和大量顽固自豪感的自由国家永远不会达成完全一致，即使它们希望实现同样的目标。
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
我从不怀疑平等权利是正确的方向。大多数改革，大多数问题都是复杂的。但对我来说，普通的平等并不复杂。
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
那些赢得我们独立的人…将自由视为目的和手段。他们认为自由是幸福的秘密，勇气是自由的秘密。
Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.
总的来说，我的感觉是，我认为女性只是以一种普遍的方式走出来，走到她们自己的世界。他们有更多的机会，基本上我们是平等的。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
没有人是自由的，除非每个人都自由。
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。
Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
有自由的地方，怀疑自己一定是自由的。
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。
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
自由永远是持不同政见者的自由。
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。