A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
现在，整个国际社会都承认格鲁吉亚。我们是联合国和欧洲理事会的成员。一切都在准备之中，以便我们很快进入欧洲联盟。
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
我告诉你们，自由的代价是血，而且一直是人的血。如果我们的自由丧失了，我们将永远无法恢复，除非以血为代价。它们决不能丢失。
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
过多的财富和大量的家庭奴隶，自然会消除普遍的自由感，并为那种通常在贵族统治中终结的独立播下种子。
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
一想到要脱离联邦，我就不寒而栗。我虔诚地祈求上帝不要发生这样的事情，如果真的发生了，从那天起，我就会看到我们的自由消失了。
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
在这个世界上，如果没有你们所说的道德美德，你们就不可能有自由;如果没有那一半人的奴役，你们就不可能有道德美德，而那一半人憎恨你们所说的道德美德。
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
欧盟的目标是建立一个自由、安全和公正的地区。在这方面的自由不能仅仅是强者的自由，但必须与博爱和平等结合起来。
We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.
我们看到，选民在最近的选举中被剥夺了权利，因为他们被错误地从名单中清除，他们缺席的选票没有计算在内，投票机的完整性和安全没有得到保证。
I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.
除了人，我不知道还有什么能安全储存社会的终极力量。如果我们认为他们不够开明，补救措施不是剥夺他们的权力，而是通过教育来告知他们。
Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
在战斗结束并出现允许人民自由表达意愿的条件之前，不可能有选举，在这种情况下，世界任何地方都不会举行选举。
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.
特别是，在第一次世界大战后重建和平的努力是为了根据一项有意识的国家计划建立国家和管理其边界。
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
人们认为欧盟是一个单向的过程，是一个巨大的机器，从国家议会到欧洲层面的决策，直到一切都由欧盟决定。这种情况需要改变。
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
美利坚合众国形成了一个年轻的共和国，一个联盟，在这些原则的影响下，在这些原则的影响下，利益和感情的结合应该永远巩固这个联盟。
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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。
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
那些愿意放弃基本自由而换取一点暂时安全的人，既不配享有自由，也不配享有安全。
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。
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。
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。
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。