Land was almost free. Some people wanted to find gold or silver and become rich.

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They didn't become a free man, they became a freed man, and that was legally different.

他们不是自由民，他们是自由人，法律上是不同的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Perhaps because they have become wise in that they have learned they have moral choice. They have free will, they can defy God and God's plans for them in a way that animals and natural phenomena cannot.

也许是因为，他们在拥有智慧以后,明白他们有道德选择，他们有自由的意愿,可以反抗上帝为他们决定的命运,而这些事动物和自然无法做到的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Slave-holders in Missouri did not want the Nebraska area to become a free territory.

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Plato's famous answer to this is that this city, any city will never be free of conflict, will never be free of factional strife until, in his famous formula, kings become philosophers and philosophers become kings.

柏拉图最著名的回答是,这座城，或任何一座,都将免不了冲突，或是派系斗争，直到施行其著名的方案，国王成为哲学家,哲学家亦成王。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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.

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