A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
压制批评就是压制自由。
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
这是奴隶制，更不用说思想了。
To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.
依靠一个人的意志就是奴役。
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
自由永远是持不同政见者的自由。
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
放弃的自由是不容易重新获得的。
This young century will be liberty's century.
这个年轻的世纪将是自由的世纪。
Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
没有自由的生活比死亡更糟糕。
The state is not ‘abolished’; it withers away.
国家不是“废除”的;它枯萎。
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
我们必须愿意为自由付出代价。
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
所有人的自由对我的自由至关重要。
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
你必须在街上代表言论自由。
I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
我不想把人民的声音关在门外。
KEEP EXPLORING
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。
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
地球已经准备好了，时机已经成熟，可以权威地表达女性以及男性对共同社会共识的解释，这种共识正在慢慢地在国家中书写正义，在社会秩序中书写友爱。
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。
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
你可能会认为河流会倒流，就像任何生来就满足于被囚禁的人一样。