A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in.
监察员表示，这是一场可信的选举，我认为，从总体上来说，这显然是一场自由公正的选举，所以这是一个真正的里程碑，我们可以对其中一点信心。
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
自由是一位伟大的天上女神，她坚强、仁慈、严肃，她绝不能通过群众的呐喊、不受约束的激情的辩论、阶级对阶级的仇恨而降临到一个国家。
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.
理想的情况是，公民把自己想象成立法者，问自己，什么样的法规，由什么样的理由支持，符合互惠原则，他们认为最合理的颁布。
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.
文明是一个过程，在这个过程中，一个人逐渐增加“我们”或“我们”这个词所包含的人数，同时减少那些被贴上“你”或“他们”标签的人，直到这个类别中没有剩下一个人。
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等;他们被造物主赋予某些不可剥夺的权利;其中包括生命、自由和对幸福的追求。
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
这个国家孕育于自由之中，奉行的原则包括:诚实的人可以诚实地提出异议;如果他们都能说出自己的想法，大多数人就能分清是非。
We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.
我们希望，我们已经明确表示，部队需要出动。它需要是完全和彻底的撤退。我们的立场是，必须尽快完成这项工作，使选举能够自由、公正和不受外来影响。
There are two competing philosophies in 'Wool': one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.
关于“羊毛”，有两种相互竞争的哲学:一种是为了生存，人们必须生活在铁腕之下;另一种是每个人都应该完全自由快乐地生活，一切都会自行解决。
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
我们必须时刻牢记独立与自由之间的区别。自由是做法律允许的任何事情的权利，如果一个公民能做法律禁止他做的事情，他将不再拥有自由。
The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
该法案的全部内容是对全体人民或个人权利的声明。它规定个人的某些权利是不可剥夺的，因此，任何多数人都无权剥夺这些权利。
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
有一次，如果我不满意，至少部分地，满足于让那些有智慧的人和那些当过兵的人有选举权;现在我深信，健全的政策和公正的正义要求普选。
I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
我个人认为，任何拥有核项目的国家都应该遵守国际规则，应该有国际监管机构进行检查，确保任何核项目都朝着正确的方向发展。
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
对于自由的人民，并打算保持自由的人民，有组织和武装的民兵是他们最好的保障。
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。
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
我并不担心我们实验的结果会是，人们可以被信任在没有主人的情况下管理自己。
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
很少人渴望自由;大多数人只希望有一个公正的主人。
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
我们必须记住，失去一个人的权利就是失去所有人的权利。