Quotations  名言录

 

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

B. Franklin

为了暂时的少许的安全而放弃基本自由的人,既不配获得自由,也不配获得安全。

                                           富兰克林

The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!

                                         W. L. Bowles

自由的事业是上帝的事业。

                                          鲍利斯

Freedom is more important than comfort.

                                           Aesop

自由比舒适更重要。

伊索

Freedom never yet was given to nations as a gift, but only as a reward, bravely earned by one’s own exertions.

                                          L. Kossuth

自由从来不是作为礼物赠予某些国家的,而只是对它们自己勇敢争取的一种回报。

                                           科苏特

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

                                        P. Buck

一直都是自由的人决不会理解对那些没有自由的人来说自由的希望所具有的极大魅力。

                                          赛珍珠

The sum of behaviour is to retain a man’s own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.

                                      F. Bacon

人的行为准则是:维护自己的尊严,又不妨碍他人的自由。

培根

Self-discipline and self-control are not dams that impede our freedom; they are levees that channel our energies and guide our talents.

W. Ward

自我约束和自我控制不是阻碍我们自由的大坝,而是疏通我们精力和引导我们才能的堤岸。

沃德

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it.

F.      B. Shaw

自由意味着责任,所以多数人害怕责任。

萧伯纳

There shall be no cooperation between injustice and justice, between an unjust man and a justice-loving man, between truth and untruth.

M. Gandhi

在非正义和正义之间,在不公正的人和热爱公正的人之间,在真实和虚妄之间不会有任何合作。

甘地

 

Those who deny freedom to others hardly deserve it for themselves.

                                       A. Pope

那些不给别人自由的人,他们自己就不配得到自由。

                                   蒲柏 

Liberty is in every blow! Let us do or die.

R. Burns

多一次斗争,多一分自由!咱们斗争吧,否则就去死。

彭斯

The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power.

T. W. Wilson

自由的历史是限制政府权力的历史。

威尔逊

It is true that liberty is precious so precious that it must be rationed.

V. I. Lenin

自由的确珍贵,珍贵到必须定量分配的地步。

                                       列宁

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

                                   R. Luxemburg

自由始终是,并且只能是思想不同者的自由。

                                     卢森堡

I gave my life for freedom ----

This I know:

For those who bade me fight had told me so.

W. N. Ewer

我为自由而献身 ——

这点我清楚,

那些让我战斗的人这么告诉过我。

                                       艾乌尔

What stands if Freedom fall?

                                        R. Kipling  

自由倒下了,还有什么能立着呢?

                                        吉普林

He who loseth liberty loseth all.

                                         British proverb

失去自由即失去一切。

                                         英国谚语

Give me liberty, or give me death!

       P. Henry

不自由。毋宁死!          

亨利

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression ---- everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way ---- everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want …

The fourth is freedom from fear.      

F. D. Roosevelt   

在我们想方设法确保安全的未来年月里,我们期待着有一个建立在四项基本人权自由基础上的世界。

第一项是言论和表达思想的自由 ----- 世界各地皆可以。

第二项是人人皆有以自己的方式膜拜上帝的自由 ----- 世界各地皆可以。

第三项是没有贫困。

第四项是没有恐惧。

                                      罗斯福

                                             (易草木 编译)