A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
在这个国家，保护在某种程度上总是存在的;但有时它是有效的，有时不是;我们走向自由或奴隶制的倾向总是与它的效率或无效率成正比。
Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.
我们希望自由国家共同体的力量使我们的主权和权利不会受到任何试图破坏我们社会的自由、开放和安全的人的挑战。
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。
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.
我们需要在这个国家重新开始，把公民话语提升到另一个层次。我的意思是，我们大喊大叫，却没有取得什么成就，但你可以和下一个家伙有很大的分歧，但仍然是朋友和熟人。
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
一个人要投票这一事实迫使他思考。你可以按年向会众传道，却不影响他们的思想，因为没有人要求他们采取明确的行动。但是把你的主题放到一个活动中，它就变成了一个挑战。
Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
嗯，如果你看看我们提供的项目，我认为这是一个对男女都公平的未来。我们在人数上仍然远远落后——我们在议会的席位仍然是四比一——但我们是先驱!我们正在开辟一条新路。
It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.
在我看来，虽然权力通常意味着权力的转移，即某个人或群体对另一个人或群体的转移，但我们有可能与一种共同发展的权力，一种共同主动的权力，而不是一种强制权力，共同发展权力的概念。
Many politicians lay it down as a self evident proposition that no people ought to be free until they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learned to swim.
许多政治家把它作为一个不言自明的主张，即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前，没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜，他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
民权的产生是因为年轻人的参与。年轻人站了起来，帮助打破了他们父母已经习惯的生活模式。下一代人必须坚持他们所参与的社会活动。
There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
不能假设今天的大多数人是“正确的”，而阿米什人和其他类似的人是“错误的”。一种奇怪甚至不稳定但不干涉他人权益的生活方式不应因其不同而受到谴责。
Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.
要对预选和换届选举法律进行若干修改，完善预选和换届选举法律，但这些修改绝不能妨碍人民充分、自由地选择在普选中投票的候选人。
As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ.
正如遵守神圣的制度是共和国伟大的原因一样，无视这些制度会导致共和国的毁灭;因为在那里没有敬畏神的心，国就必倾倒。
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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。
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
那个社会里的人能走进城镇广场，畅所欲言，而不用担心因为自己的观点而受到惩罚吗?如果是这样，那么这个社会就是一个自由的社会。如果没有，那就是一个充满恐惧的社会。
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom.
除了好人，没有人会真心热爱自由;其余的人不爱自由。
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。
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。