Freedom
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
——Baraka， French writer
人要么是自由的，要么是不自由的，从来就不存在过渡阶段。
——法国作家巴拉卡
A new breeze is blowing and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on： there is new ground to be broken， and new action to be taken.
——George Bush， American president
一种新颖的风正在吹拂，为激励的民族随时准备向前推进；新的道路有待开拓，新的行动有
待采取。
——美国总统G.布什
Among a people general corrupt， liberty cannot long exist.
——Edmond Burke， British statesman
在一个普遍腐败的民族里，自由不可能长期存在。
——英国政治家E.伯克
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
——Rosa Luxemburg， German revolutionary
自由始终是并且只能是持不同思想者的自由。
——德国革命家R.卢森堡
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted，all else follows.
——George Eric Blair Orwell， British novelist
自由是指人们有说“2+2=4”的自由，有了这一保证，其他一切便会随之而来。
——英国小说家G. E. B.奥韦尔
I intend no modification of my hope...expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
——Abraham Lincoln， American president
我无意改变时常表达的个人愿望： 愿天下所有的人都能自由。
——美国总统A.林肯
Is life so dear， or peace so sweet， as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery？ Forbid it， Almighty God！—I know not what course others may take； but as for me， give me liberty， or give me death！
——Patrick Henry， American revolutionary
难道生命如此宝贵，和平如此甜美，以至于不惜以枷锁和奴役为代价去换取它们吗？万能的上帝，请千万别让这种事情发生。——我不知道别人会走什么路，但是就我而言，不自由，
毋宁死！
——美国革命家P.亨利
It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that deeps freedom alive. In a free country there will always be conflicting ideas， and this is a source of strength.
——Thomas Jefferson， American president
使自由保持活力是冲突而不是绝对的一致。在一个自由的国家里总会有各种相冲突的思想，
而这正是力量的源泉。
——美国总统T.杰斐逊
It is true that liberty is precious...so precious that it must be rationed.
——Vladimir Liyich Lenin， Russian revolutionary
真的，自由很珍贵，珍贵得必须按定量分配。
——俄国革命家V. L.列宁
Liberty and civilization are only fragments of rights wrung from the strong hands of wealth and book learning.
——Wendell Phillips， American social reformer
自由和文明不过是从有钱人和读书人有力的手中强夺过来的一些权利的碎片。
——美国社会改革家W.菲利斯
Liberty is in every blow！ Let us do or die.
——Robert Burns， British poet
多一分斗争，添一分自由！不在斗争中生，就在等待中死。
——英国诗人R.彭斯
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.
——William A. White， American journalist
自由就是这样的东西，不给予别人你自己也无法得到。
——美国记者W. A.怀特
Liberty， when it begins to take root， is a plant of rapid growth.
——George Washington， Father of the United States
自由一旦生根，便是株迅猛生长的植物。
——美国国父G.华盛顿
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.
——Erasmus， Dutch humanist
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活和自由。
——荷兰人文主义者伊拉斯漠
Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.
——Ho Chi Minh， Vietnamese statesman
没有什么比独立和自由更可贵的了。
——越南政治家胡志明
Smokers and nonsmokers can not be equally free in the same railway carriage.
——George Bernard Shaw， British dramatist
吸烟者和不吸烟者在同一节车厢里无法享受同样的自由。
——英国剧作家G.萧伯纳
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power.
——Woodrow Wilson， American president
自由的历史是限制政府权力的历史。
——美国总统W.威尔逊
The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughl addresses himself to the activity of his best powers， gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him， flings himself out into the midst of humanity， and
is so preoccupied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a separate existence...
——Frances E .C. Willard， American social activist
最正常、最完美的人就是那彻底投身于自己最擅长的活动的人，是那完全献身于周围世界的
人，是和群众打成一片的人。他专心致志于他对世界的有利作用，以至于几乎意识不到
自己与世界还存在距离……
——美国社会活动家F. E. C.维拉德
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
——Jules Renard， French dramatist and novelist
唯一真正自由的人是能够拒绝宴会的邀请，而不用找借口的人。
——法国剧作家、小说家J.勒纳尔
The truth is cruel， but it can be loved， and it makes free those who have loved it.
——J.Xartre， American writer
尽管真理是无情的，但也是可爱的，它使爱它的人自由。
——美国作家J.萨特
That freedom and order are not incompatible； that reverence is the maid of knowledge； that free discussion is the life of truth， and of true unity in a nation.
——Thomas Henry Huxley， British naturalist
自由与秩序并非必然互相排斥，知识高于威严，自由讨论是真理的生命，也是国家真正团结
统一的生命。
——英国博物学家T. H.赫胥黎
There is in liberty as in innocence and virtue a satisfaction one can only feel in their enjoyment and a pleasure which can cease only when lost.
——Rousseau， French thinker
自由同清白与美德一样，只有在你享用它时，才感到满足，一旦失去它们，你就会感到欢乐
停止了。
——法国思想家卢梭
Those who deny freedom to others hardly deserve it for themselves.
——Alexander Pope， British poet
凡是不给别人自由的人，自己也无法得到。
——英国诗人A.蒲柏
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
——Thomas Paine， British writer
想要收获自由之果的人，必须承受维护自由的劳苦。
——英国作家T.潘恩
