And you must know, as I looked on, I saw those men in a short time make the former democracy " look like a golden age."

而我一路看来，所见这些人在短期内的作为,似乎使旧民主,看起来像是进入了全盛时代“

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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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