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.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我们认为下述真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等,造物主赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利;其中包括生命、自由和对幸福的追求。

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

平等,正如我们的开国元勋们所正确理解的那样,将导致自由和创造性分歧的解放;正如在我们这个时代所发生的悲剧一样,对它的错误理解,首先导致了顺从,然后导致了专制。

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

特权是权利最大的敌人。