Democracy, in final analysis,is a system of governance based not only in trust but also distrust.

归根结底，民主就是治理体系,不仅基于信任，也以不信任为基础。

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The third is, and these are not necessarily in any particular order, how they were governed or rather how they governed themselves.

第三是,这三个问题并,没有主次之分,他们是如何被治理的,或者还不如说他们是如何自我治理的

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For the ancients, liberty meant living in a self-governing republic, living in a republic in which everyone again took some share in the ruling offices.

古人认为自由即意味着,生活在一个拥有自治权的共和国里，一个人人都有机会,治理国家的地方。

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Very difficult problems, but in my judgement, all solvable if we generate the country in the kind of bipartizan political cooperation and political courage that will be necessary to fix them.

这些问题很不容易解决，但我认为,不是不能解决，只要我们,以这种两党制的合作形式治理国家,还要有治理它们的政治勇气。

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that is,people who were administered,who are governed, but in the sense of having people passing papers back and forth, and having to sign every damn thing you could ever imagine- it's just unbelievable-- before they ever thought of themselves as being citizens.

也就是被治理者,被统治者,不过让人们来回奔忙为了申请批准,还要在每一份该死的文件上签名,从这个意义上来说,在他们视自己为公民前,这是令人难以置信的

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If wealth were the purpose of politics Aristotle writes the Phoenicians you might say in the ancient world -the Phoenicians were the commercial people par excellence the Phoenicians would be the best regime.

后者是著名《富国论》的作者,亚里士多德写到,如果财富是政治的目的,则你可以说，腓尼基人,远古世界最优秀的商人,腓尼基人治理的是最佳政体。

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