The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Just as we cannot be friends with all persons, so the city cannot be friends with all other cities or the state with all other states.

就像我们不能与所有的人做朋友，城市间也不行,国与国之间更不用说。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So he moves, as the libertarians later would move, from the idea that we own ourselves, that we have property in our persons to the closely connected idea that we own our own labor.

因此他更进一步，自由主义者此后也将如此，从自我拥有的观点，从我们拥有自我所有权，更进一步,到与之紧密关联的，我们拥有自己劳动的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Doesn't Aristotle call man the rational animal, the being with logos, suggesting that all human beings have a desire for knowledge and the desire to cultivate their minds and live as free persons.

亚里士多德不是称人类为理性的动物吗，具有，Logos，的生物，并暗示所有的人类,都有求知欲,且想要陶冶他的身心,并过自由的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"We're working very closely with Interpol," "They are in the process of establishing what is called the Dangerous and Disruptive Persons Database which will assist us in identifying people that may pose a potential danger to the tournament as far as organized fighting or hooliganism is concerned."

VOA: standard.2009.06.12