"I call on the United Nations, an operation to restore the rule of law and the freedom Hondurans deserve,".

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But in England, the tradition of freedom and government bound by law was already strong enough to produce effective resistance.

但是在英国,自由传统和法制政府,使得自由得以很好的保护

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It seems to me to be evident that whatever it's other characteristics, the West has created institutions of government and law that provide unprecedented freedom for its people.

在我看来,很显然,就算各国国情千秋百态,但西方建立的政府机构与设立的法律制度,都给与其治下的公民史无前例的自由

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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