Politics
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
非常有名的一首诗,雕刻在美国纽约自由女神像基座上,作者是Emma
Lazarus,数以百万计世界各地的移民就是从这里在自由女神的火炬下进入美国,在这个国家实现了梦想.
- I see, I come, I conquer.
( 凯撒的名言,很有气势.)
- All men are created equal.
( 独立宣言中的名言,人之生来平等.)
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Government of the people, for the
people, by the people.
亚布拉翰.林肯(Abraham.Lincoln)的<<盖底斯堡演讲>>(<<Gettysburg Address>>)中名言,民享,民有,民治.
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
( 自由,平等,博爱.)
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From each according to his abilities,
to each according to his needs
托马斯.摩尔(Thomas More)乌托邦(Utopia)中的名言,也是共产主义的最终目标:各尽所能,按需分配.
- Declaration of Independence
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: - That all men are created equal; that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are
life,liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed: that,
whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,it is the right of the
people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government,laying its foundation
on such principles, and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;and,
accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, that to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariable
the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their
future security.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
摘自美国<独立宣言>很有名的一段.大意是:
人之生来平等.造物主赋予赋予每个人不可剥夺的神圣的权利了,其中包括生命的权利,享受自由的权利,和追求幸福的权利.政府的权利是人民赋予的,无论政府以何种形式损害了人民的利益.人民有权改变或推翻这个政府,建立一个新的政府.
- The peace without victory is peace
forever.
没有胜利者的和平是永远的和平.
在美国南北战争胜利后,战胜的一方北方政府把没收和缴获南方的土地,物资全部归还了南方,并释放了所有的南方战俘.他们认为只有没有仇恨的和平才是永远的和平.
- The Government Exists for the Sole
Purpose of Serving the People, not Ruling the People
政府存在唯一的目的就是服务它的人民,
而不是统治人民.
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I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties
and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the
American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men
are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of
former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a
table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert
state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an
oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's
lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be
transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join
hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every
hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked
places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh
shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the
South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of
hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work
together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for
freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing
with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let
freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let
freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the
mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and
every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when
all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and
Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
"Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
马丁.路的金(Martin Luther King)很有名的演讲,<<我有一个梦>>
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