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托马斯·杰斐逊，美国政治家、思想家、教育家和科学家，第3任美国总统(1801～1809)，民主共和党创始人。1743年4月13日生于弗吉尼亚的沙德威尔。
n. 爱国者
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- Let us,then,fellow citizens,unite with one heart and one mind.
- 因此，公民们，让我们同心同德地团结起来。
- Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.
- 让我们在社会交往中和睦如初、恢复友爱，如果没有这些，自由，甚至生活本身都会索然寡味。
- And let us reflect that,having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered,
- 让我们再想一想，我们已经将长期以来造成人类流血、受苦的宗教信仰上的不宽容现象逐出国土，
- we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic,as wicked,and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
- 那么我们必将无所收获，如果我们鼓励某种政治上的不宽容，其专横，邪恶和可能造成的残酷、血腥迫害均与此相仿，
- During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world,
- 当旧世界经历阵痛和骚动，
- during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man,seeking through blood and slaughter his long lost liberty,
- 当愤怒的人挣扎着想通过流血、杀戮来寻求失去已久的自由，
- it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore;
- 那波涛般的激情，甚至也会冲击这片遥远而宁静的海岸；
- that this should be more felt and feared by some and less by others,and should divide opinions as to measures of safety.
- 对此，人们的感触和忧虑不会一样，因而对安全措施的意见就出现了分歧，这些都不足为奇。
- But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
- 但是，各种意见分歧并不都是原则分歧。
- We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.
- 我们以不同的名字呼唤同一原则的兄弟。
- We are all Republicans,we are all Federalists.
- 我们都是共和党人，我们都是联邦党人。
- If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form,
- 如果我们当中有人想解散这个联邦，或者想改变它的共和体制，
- let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
- 那就让他们不受干扰而作为对平安的纪念碑吧，因为有了平安，错误的意见就可得到宽容，理性就得以自由地与之抗争。
- I know,indeed,that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong,that this Government is not strong enough;
- 诚然，我知道，有些正直人士担心共和制政府无法成为强有力的政府，担心我们这个政府不够坚强，
- but would the honest patriot,in the full tide of successful experiment,
- 但是，在实验取得成功的高潮中，一个诚实的爱国者，
- abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government,
- 从理论上和梦想里放弃了这个迄今带给我们自由和坚定的政府吗
- the world's best hope,may be possibility want energy to preserve itself?
- 就以为被这个世界寄予最大希望的政府可能需要力量才得以自存。
- I believe it the only one where every man,at the call of the law,would fly to the standard of the law,
- 我相邻唯有在这种政府的治理下，每个人才会响应法律的号召，奔向法律的旗帜，
- and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
- 像对待切身利益那样，迎击侵犯公共秩序的举动。
- Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself.
- 有时我们听到一种说法：不能让人们自己管理自己。
- Can be,then,be trusted with the government of others?
- 那么，能让他去管理别人吗？
- Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?
- 或者，我们在统治人民的君王名单中发现了天使吗？
- Let history answer this question.
- 这个问题让历史来回答吧。
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