A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.
妇女不应再被剥夺选举权，妇女不应再被当作二等公民对待，妇女根本不应再被允许成为公民。
The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.
特许经营权本身并没有赋予真正的权力，除非所有拥有它的人都有权选举出数量相等的代表。
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
如果我们希望维持一个自由社会，我们必须认识到，某一特定目标的可取性并不是使用胁迫的充分理由。
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
他认真地考虑过要当和尚。他认为他必须独身才能保持他的乐器的纯净，但是我的乐器需要调音，我们必须分开。
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
在欧洲，社会的各个阶层就像地球的各个阶层一样，是固定的、僵化的。没有一场可怕的动乱，没有一场社会地震，就不会有巨大的变化。
To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
倡导一种新秩序就是在没有偏见的情况下寻求对各国人民的自由和尊重，并为所有各国人民平等和不受威胁的生存寻求一个稳定的基础。
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
联合国的整个基础是所有国家- -无论大国还是小国- -都有权有分量，有权投票，有权得到注意，有权成为二十世纪的一部分。
When we started the UN we were not trying to make a monument. We were building a workshop - a workshop for world peace. And we tried to make it the best damn workshop we could.
当我们成立联合国的时候，我们并没有试图建立一个纪念碑。我们正在建设一个讲习班——一个世界和平讲习班。我们想把它变成最好的工作室。
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
有时它甚至使我怀疑我的观点是否完全正确，即所有人生来就享有平等的权利，因为在我看来，他们的行为违反了这一学说。
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
在我看来，拒绝接受一项请愿书，或由某种一般命令直接拒绝请愿书，与拒绝请愿权之间是无法区别的。
I think everybody in Peru is determined to have as perfect an election for the world to see, and for the Peruvians to enjoy, as is possible. So we feel very confident about it.
我认为秘鲁的每一个人都下定决心要举行一场完美的选举，让全世界看到，让秘鲁人民尽可能地享受。所以我们对此很有信心。
For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
对于我们的白人成员来说，投票是他们几百年来一直在做的事情。但对我们来说，这并不是什么痛苦的事情，因为我们从未参加过选举。
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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。
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
任何女人不自由，我就不自由，即使她的枷锁和我的很不一样。
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
你不能通过剥夺人们的主动性和独立性来培养品格和勇气。
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。
Every election is determined by the people who show up.
每一次选举都是由选民决定的。
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。