A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
投票是人类有史以来所设计的最有力的工具，它打破了不公正，摧毁了囚禁人们的可怕的高墙，因为他们与众不同。
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
五十年来，南美洲没有发生过战争，我完全相信，中美洲和南美洲各国对维持和平有着深切的诚意。
As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.
同所有形式的解放一样(妇女解放只是其中的一个例子)，很容易设想在自由的时代，压迫的黑暗日子再也不会来临。
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
建议女性变得和男性一样，将是一个简单的逆转，并将击败雌雄同体的整个观点，就此而言，女权主义:在两者中，整个观点都是选择。
If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?
如果婚姻可以被重新定义，不再是一个男人和一个女人，而是两个男人或两个女人，为什么就此打住?为什么不允许三个男人或一个女人和两个男人组成婚姻呢?
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.
如果国会在这方面做它的工作，波多黎各居民将被授权按照他们自己的利益行事，并据此表达他们未来的政治地位愿望。
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.
在我被捕的时候，我不知道会变成这样。这只是和平常一样的一天。唯一重要的是群众的参与。
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
在一个自由开放的社会里，“保密”这个词本身就令人反感;我们作为一个民族，从本质上和历史上都反对秘密组织，反对秘密宣誓，反对秘密程序。
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
现代宪政的发展，迫使构成选民的公民个体成功地行使理性和深思熟虑的判断。
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
自由主义者知道，一个自由的国家对任何人的进出都没有什么可害怕的，而一个福利国家却对穷人的进入和富人的退出感到恐惧。
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
民意调查只是被用作另一种压制选民的工具。民意调查的目的不是反映民意，而是塑造民意。你的。他们想把你压垮。
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
在政治自由主义中，人的自由是不受个人、个人统治和主人的自由;保护每个人不受他人侵害，个人自由。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.
我们已经学会说，只有把善扩展到整个社会，才能使任何一个人或任何一个阶层得到保障。但是，我们还没有学会给这句话加上一句:除非所有的人、所有的阶级都为一件好事做出贡献，否则我们甚至不能肯定它是否值得拥有。
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。
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
非洲人要求、想要以一人一票为基础的选举权。他们想要政治独立。
Every election is determined by the people who show up.
每一次选举都是由选民决定的。
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。