A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
民主
Democracy
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。
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。
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
我们的国家是唯一一个有意建立在好主意之上的国家。
If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.
如果我们达成共识，我们就不用去公投了。
Suffrage is the pivotal right. Suffrage is the pivotal right.
选举权是最重要的权利。选举权是最重要的权利。
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
自由人民的第一需要是定义他们自己的术语。
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
人一旦认识到自己是受法律支配的，就自由了。
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with
自由之树需要不时浇水
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
如果一个国家压迫其他国家，它还能自由吗?它不能。
You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.
如果你认为年轻人不值得投票，那你就错了。
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
每个人的自由只能是所有人的自由。
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
宽容和自由是伟大共和国的基础。
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。
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
真正的危险是自由被蚕食，为了权宜之计，被部分蚕食。
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
想要收获自由之果的人，必须象人一样，承受维护自由的劳苦。
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。
If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
如果自由意味着什么，那就是告诉人们他们不想听的话的权利。
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。