特纳声称，边疆产生了个人主义，个人主义是美国文化的标志，而这种个人主义反过来又促进了民主制度和经济平等。

Turner claimed that the frontier produced the individualism that is the hallmark of American culture, and that this individualism in turn promoted democratic institutions and economic equality.

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如果人脉是可以被买到的，那民主社会的一个基本前提，即政府平等对待所有人，就被破坏了。

If connections can be bought, a basic premise of democratic society—that all are equal in treatment by government—is undermined.

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So the values that I discuss, our liberty and democracy and equality and justice.

我所探讨的价值观，我们的自由，民主，平等以及公正。

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The idea of democracy is giving everybody equal chance, not necessarily equal voice.

民主的含义是给于每个人平等的机遇，不一定是同等的话语权。

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There is a kind of license that comes from the denial of any restraints on our desires or a kind of relativistic belief that all desires are equal and all should be permitted.

有种许可来自于,拒绝限制我们的欲望,或一种相对的信念,即所有的欲望都是平等且都应被允许,柏拉图对民主的观点。

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