A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
我们都必须缔造和平,以便我们都能生活在和平之中。
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
人们宁愿挨饿而自由,也不愿吃债券。
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
自由和联合,现在和永远,是不可分割的。
It's very important to vote. People died for this right.
投票是非常重要的。人们为这个权利而死。
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
少数人可能是对的,而多数人总是错的。
One can go to war alone, butyou can't build peace alone.
一个人可以独自作战,但你不能独自缔造和平。
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
我们是否建立自由取决于我们自己。
Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!
自由和联合,现在和永远,是不可分割的!
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
没有失败的自由,就没有真正的自由。
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
没有经济自由就没有自由。
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。
This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.
这位法官不是国王。人民是国王。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
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 to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
不同意见的自由并不局限于无关紧要的事。那将仅仅是自由的影子。对其实质内容的检验是,有权对触及现有秩序核心的事物持不同意见。
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。
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
按照目前的情况,我们这些出生就有幸成为公民的人不必做太多事情。对我们的要求很少。
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。