A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
没有普选，没有不受限制的新闻和集会自由，没有自由的意见斗争，每一个公共机构的生命就会消亡，成为仅仅是表面的生命，其中只有官僚机构仍然是积极的因素。
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
我们认为这些真理是神圣不可否认的;人人生而平等、独立;他们从平等的创造中获得了固有的和不可剥夺的权利，其中包括维护生命、自由和追求幸福。
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
在生产者自由平等的协会的基础上组织生产的社会，将把它所属的国家的全部机器，放在古文物博物馆里，放在纺车和青铜斧头旁边。
The way that people register, the way that people vote and to guarantee that when their votes are cast that they'll be counted accurately and to make sure that we don't discriminate against voters who might be poorer or live in a precinct that has a bad system.
人们登记的方式，人们投票的方式，确保他们的选票被准确计算，确保我们不会歧视那些可能更穷的选民，或者生活在一个有糟糕制度的选区的选民。
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
因此，有时事实是好的，有时事实是坏的，从像言论自由一样广泛和重要的原则的观点来看，重要的事情是法院以一种非常保护的方式阐明这些原则是什么。
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
我们应该对自由抱有同情之心，并希望赋予自由以范围，这不是建立在幻想的基础上，而是建立在这个幸福的岛屿的海岸上几代人的长期经验之上，即在自由中，你们奠定了忠诚和秩序的最坚实的基础。
Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
妇女往往表达了对和平的渴望，而用于争取在短期和中期实现和平的机制的管理工作却由男性决策结构和非正式安排所主导。这必须改变。
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
想要保护与我们意见一致的人的言论似乎是人类的一种特性。对于第一修正案来说，这还不够好。因此，保护第一修正案赋予人们的权利是非常重要的，无论他们站在哪一边。
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
一个人愿意在别人也这样做的时候，为了自己的和平与防卫，他认为有必要把这种权利赋予一切事物;满足于对他人的自由，就像他允许他人对自己的自由一样。
Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference.
音乐可以帮助你克服任何一种情绪。它可以帮助你走出分手，让你跳舞，或者帮助你认识或了解自己……如果我能唱一首歌，让别人感受到这些，那么我就会觉得我已经做出了改变。
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则，即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风，但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利，而平等的法律必须保护这些权利，侵犯这些权利就是压迫。
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
共和国是由公民的美德、公共精神和智慧创建的。当明智的人被逐出公共议会时，他们会堕落，因为他们敢于诚实;而挥霍无为的人会得到奖赏，因为他们奉承人民，为的是背叛人民。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
没有人是自由的，除非每个人都自由。
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
投票是赋予被统治者同意原则以生命的基本行为。
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。
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
地球飞船上没有乘客。我们都是船员。