Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

那些将放弃基本自由去换取那暂时的微不足道的安全，得到的却是既不自由也不安全。

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Those, who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

甘愿放弃基本自由、买得暂时一点安全的人，是没有资格得到自由或安全的。

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As Benjamin Franklin observed: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

正如本杰明•富兰克林所言：“为微小的一时安全，而可弃基本自由之人，既不配享受自由，也不配享有安全。”

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Recently, it has become fashionable to play down that progress by pointing out that many of the new democracies have not gone beyond elections to build the other, essential, protections for liberty: an independent judiciary, equality before a well-enforced rule of law, and constitutional limits on the abuse of political power.

ECONOMIST: Liberty's great advance

But it is a good means, and liberty is an essential one.

ECONOMIST: Liberty, equality, humility

Such a concept is not only needed in a nation formed to secure liberty, but is essential to its continued progress.

FORBES: 01.24.08, 6:38 PM ET