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2. Listen and Write

5. Warm-up Questions

Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading

3. Watch and Role-play

1. Watch and Speak

4. Listen and Speak


Watch and Speak

Directions: Watch the video clip, choose one of the American presidents and talk about what he has done that made him related to “freedom”.

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Listen and Write


Directions: Listen to the speech of Franklin D. Roosevelt and fill in the blanks according to what you hear.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The is — everywhere in the world.freedom of speech and expression____________________________first

第一是在全世界任何地方发表言论和表达意见的自由。

The is in his own way — everywhere in the world.

freedom of every person to worship God_________________________________second

第二是在全世界任何地方，人人有以自己的方式来崇拜上帝的自由。


The is , which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.

freedom from want________________third

第三是不虞匮乏的自由——这种自由，就世界范围来讲，就是一种经济上的融洽关系，它将保证全世界每一个国家的居民都过健全的、和平时期的生活。

The is , which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.

freedom from fear_______________fourth

第四是免除恐惧的自由——这种自由，就世界范围来讲，就是世界性的裁减军备，要以一种彻底的方法把它裁减到这样的程度：务使世界上没有一个国家有能力向全世界任何地区的任何邻国进行武力侵略。

Listen and Write


Watch and Role-playImagine you were a passenger of Mayflower — Remember Allerton. After watching the video clip, try to make a dialogue between Remember Allerton and her parents about why and how they went to Plymouth. Besides using the materials in the video clip, you can also add something imagined.

Directions:

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The Rev. Seymour St. John, who, as headmaster of the Choate School, steered it through turbulent changes in the 1960’s and early 70’s, including its merger with Rosemary Hall in 1971, died on Monday at his home on Jupiter Island, Florida. He was 94. His wife, Marie, said he died in his sleep.

Born on the Choate campus in Wallingford, Conn., he seemed to have the school in his genes; his father, George St. John, was headmaster from 1908 to 1947.

In 1947, after a two-year search, he was chosen to succeed his father, and he served as headmaster for 26 years. Though some outsiders derided “the St. John dynasty,” there was widespread agreement in the Choate community that Seymour St. John was the best-qualified candidate.

“The St. John family occupied 68 of the 110 years of the school’s history, and I know of no other school with that length of service by a single family,” Edward Shanahan, the current headmaster, said. “Seymour was an intellectual, an athlete and well respected by the faculty.”


Listen and Speak Directions: Listen to the introduction of the author Seymour St. John and answer the following questions.


1. Who is Seymour St. John?

He was the headmaster of the Choate School.

2. How old was he when he died?94.

3. Did he die from a disease?

No, he died in his sleep.

4. Who was his father?

His father, George St. John, was headmaster from 1908 to 1947.

Listen and Speak

5. How long did he serve as headmaster?

26 years.

6. How long is the history of the Choate School?

110 years.


Warm-up Questions

1. What is your definition of freedom?2. What kind of freedom do you cherish most?3. How do you think we should treat students of different abilities?4. Do you think students should be granted the right to failure?


1. Part Division of the Text

For Part 1

For Part 2

Celebrity Anecdotes

Speech

Speech

2. Further Understanding


Part Division of the Text

Main IdeasParts

1

2

Paragraphs

1-2

3-9Americans have begun to lose the fifth freedom due to three misunderstandings.

Americans are in danger of losing the fifth freedom.


Directions: Divide the class into groups. Each group prepares a speech which includes: why people came to America; what are the freedoms Americans still cherish today; what the fifth freedom is.

Speech


Directions: Divide the class into groups. Each group prepares a speech which can explain one of the three misunderstandings.

Speech


Celebrity Anecdotes

Directions: Divide the class into groups. Each group prepares an anecdote of the celebrities mentioned in paragraph 7.


Beginning with the earliest pioneers, Americans have always highly valued their freedoms, and fought hard to protect them. And yet, the author points out that there is a basic freedom which Americans are in danger of losing.

What is this endangered freedom? For what reasons could freedom-loving Americans possibly let this freedom slip away? And what steps can they take to protect it — their fifth freedom?


More than three centuries ago a handful of pioneers crossed the ocean to Jamestown and Plymouth in search of freedoms they were unable to find in their own countries, the freedoms we still cherish today: freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech, freedom of religion. Today the descendants of the early settlers, and those who have joined them since, are fighting to protect these freedoms at home and throughout the world.

The Fifth FreedomSeymour St. John


And yet there is a fifth freedom — basic to those four — that we are in danger of losing: the freedom to be one’s best. St. Exupéry describes a ragged, sensitive-faced Arab child, haunting the streets of a North African town, as a lost Mozart: he would never be trained or developed. Was he free? “No one grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time; and nought will awaken in you the sleeping poet or musician or astronomer that possibly inhabited you from the beginning.” The freedom to be one’s best is the chance for the development of each person to his highest power.

How is it that we in America have begun to lose this freedom, and how can we regain it for our nation’s youth? I believe it has started slipping away from us because of three misunderstandings.


First, the misunderstanding of the meaning of democracy. The principal of a great Philadelphia high school is driven to cry for help in combating the notion that it is undemocratic to run a special program of studies for outstanding boys and girls. Again, when a good independent school in Memphis recently closed, some thoughtful citizens urged that it be taken over by the public school system and usedfor boys and girls of high ability, that it have entrance requirements and give an advanced program of studies to superior students who were interested and able to take it. The proposal was rejected because it was undemocratic! Thus, courses are geared to the middle of the class. The good student is unchallenged, bored. The loafer receives his passing grade. And the lack of an outstanding course for the outstanding student, the lack of a standard which a boy or girl must meet, passes for democracy.


The second misunderstanding concerns what makes for happiness. The aims of our present-day culture are avowedly ease and material well-being: shorter hours; a shorter week; more return for less accomplishment; more softsoap excuses and fewer honest, realistic demands. In our schools this is reflected by the vanishing hickory stick and the emerging psychiatrist. The hickory stick had its faults, and the psychiatrist has his strengths. But the trendis clear. Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner (To understand everything is to excuse everything). Do we really believe that our softening standards bring happiness? Is it our sound and considered judgment that the tougher subjects of the classics and mathematics should be thrown aside, as suggested by some educators, for doll-playing? Small wonder that Charles Malik, Lebanese delegate at the U.N., writes: “There is in the West” (in the United States) “a general weakening of moral fiber. (Our) leadership does not seem to be adequate to the unprecedented challenges of the age.”


The last misunderstanding is in the area of values. Here are some of the most influential tenets of teacher education over the past fifty years: there is no eternal truth; there is no absolute moral law; there is no God. Yet all of history has taught us that the denial of these ultimates, the placement of man or state at the core of the universe, results in a paralyzing mass selfishness; and the first signs of it are already frighteningly evident. Arnold Toynbee has said that all progress, all development come from challenge and a consequent response. Without challenge there is no response, no development, no freedom. So first we owe to our children the most demanding, challenging curriculum that is within their capabilities. Michelangelo did not learn to paint by spending his time doodling. Mozart was not an accomplished pianist at the age of eight as the result of spending his days in front of a television set. Like Eve Curie, like Helen Keller, they responded to the challenge of their lives by a disciplined training: and they gained a new freedom.

Finally, we can expose our children to the best values we have found. By relating our lives to the evidences of the ages, by judging our philosophy in the light of values that history has proven truest, perhaps we shall be able to produce that “ringing message, full of content and truth, satisfying the mind, appealing to the heart, firing the will, a message on which one can stake his whole life.” This is the message that could mean joy and strength and leadership — freedom as opposed to serfdom.


The second opportunity we can give our boys and girls is the right to failure. “Freedom is not only a privilege, it is a test,” writes De Nouy. What kind of a test is it, what kind of freedom where no one can fail? The day is past when the United States can afford to give high school diplomas to all who sit through four years of instruction, regardless of whether any visible results can be discerned. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure. These are hard words, but they are brutally true. If we deprive our children of the right to fail we deprive them of their knowledge of the world as it is.


Paraphrase the sentence.

“When you were still young, nobody gave you the help you needed to develop your artistic or intellectual talents and now you will never have the chance to become a poet or musician or astronomer, though you might have been born with a great talent for such pursuits.”

“No one grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time; and nought will awaken in you the sleeping poet or musician or astronomer that possibly inhabited you from the beginning.”


Translate the sentence.

费城的一所名牌中学为一些出类拔萃的学生实施一份特殊的教学大纲竟被视为不民主，结果校长被迫大声疾呼，要求人们一起来与这种观念作斗争。

The principal of a great Philadelphia high school is driven to cry for help in combating the notion that it is undemocratic to run a special program of studies for outstanding boys and girls.


1. What does “pass for” mean in this sentence?

没有为优秀学生开设的高水平课程，没有一个所有学生都必须达到的标准，反而被认为是民主。

And the lack of an outstanding course for the outstanding student, the lack of a standard which a boy or girl must meet, passes for democracy.

It means “be mistakenly accepted or considered as”.

2. Translate the sentence.



… more softsoap excuses and fewer honest, realistic demands.

Rather than make honest, realistic demands on their children, students, employees, etc., parents, teachers, employers, etc. would excuse their poor performance leniently.


1. What does “the hickory stick” and “the psychiatrist” respectively refer to?

… the vanishing hickory stick and the emerging psychiatrist.

“The hickory stick” is suggestive of a severe teacher; “the psychiatrist” is symbolic of the educator who excuses children by saying they have psychological problems.

2. What does the author mean here?

What the author means here is that American schools are now becoming more and more permissive and tolerant and do not set strict demands on students.


Why does the author cite this French saying here?

Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner (To understand everything is to excuse everything).

This French saying is cited here as representative of the current trend that if you know all the circumstances that have led to somebody doing something wrong, you will no longer wish to punish him.


Translate the sentence.

“There is in the West” (in the United States) “a general weakening of moral fiber.”

“在西方”（在美国）“道德品质正在普遍削弱。”



(Our) leadership does not seem to be adequate to the unprecedented challenges of the age.

It seems that (our) leaders are not strong enough or competent enough to deal with the new challenges of the present age.



... the denial of these ultimates, the placement of man or state at the core of the universe, results in a paralyzing mass selfishness;

... the refusal to believe in these fundamental principles or facts, the placement of one’s own interests or the interests of a state at the very center of the universe, will inevitably cause people to become selfish and this selfishness will make it impossible to run the world efficiently.



The day is past when the United States can afford to give high school diplomas to all who sit through four years of instruction, regardless of whether any visible results can be discerned.

The United States no longer gives high school diplomas to all the students who finish four years of instruction, no matter whether he or she meets the standard or not.


1. What does “in the light of” mean here?

By relating our lives to the evidences of the ages, by judging our philosophy in the light of values that history has proven truest, perhaps we shall be able to produce that “ringing message, full of content and truth, satisfying the mind, appealing to the heart, firing the will, a message on which one can stake his whole life.”

It means “according to”.

把我们的生活跟各个时代的事实联系起来，以历史所证实的最正确的价值观来评价我们的人生观，也许这样我们就能使他们得到那种“时时在耳边回响的启示，这启示内容丰富，闪烁着真理的光辉；令人心悦诚服，感人至深而又激发斗志，让人终生受用不尽。”

2. Translate the sentence.


descendant: n. someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago, or to a family, a group of people, etc. that existed in the past

He was a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

He is a descendant of Queen Victoria.

他是维多利亚女王的后裔。

The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists.


ragged: adj.(of clothes) old and torn; (of people) wearing old or torn clothes

Although he wore ragged clothes, he was not particularly dirty.

It tells the story of an old man who has an old, ragged hat with holes in it.

The brim of his ragged hat hung down and nearly blocked his entire face.


inhabit: vt.if animals or people inhabit an area or place, they live there

The woods are inhabited by many wild animals.

Woodpeckers inhabit hollow trees.

Who knows what dark fears inhabit the mind of a madman.

谁知道一个狂人的内心里有着什么神秘的恐惧感。


drive: vt.force someone into a usually unpleasant condition or undesirable course of action

Poverty and hunger drove them to steal.

The pain nearly drove her mad.

Continual failure drove him to despair.

连续的失败使他陷于绝望。


combat: vt.fight or struggle against

To combat inflation, the government raised interest rates.

The police are now using computers to help combat crime.

CF: combat, fight & struggle这些动词均有“战斗、对抗”之意。除了泛指“ ……与战斗” 之外，还可以在新闻报道中表示防止坏事情变得更糟糕。最普通用词，含义广，指用暴力对抗。指进行激烈或时间持续长的战斗或奋力斗争去获得某件东西。

combatfightstruggle


1. Britain against the US in the War of Independence; the Americans

were to gain their freedom.

2. The government hasn’t worked out the effectual measures to

unemployment.

3. She’s to bring up a family alone.

4. Drastic measures were taken to inflation.

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change the form where necessary.

fought______fighting_______

struggling________combat______

combat_______


notion: n. an idea, belief, or opinion

She had only a vague notion of what she wanted to do.

The traditional notion of marriage goes back thousands of years.

I have no notion of what it means.

我不知道这意味着什么。

Collocation:

have a good notion ofhave no notion of have a notion that …

很懂得不明白；完全不懂认为


superior: adj.

This handbag is made of superior leather.

This western restaurant is superior to the one we went to last week.

这家西餐馆比我们上星期去的那一家好。

Pattern:

superior to

1) of high quality

2) better, more powerful, more effective, etc. than a similar 　 person or thing, especially one that you are competing 　 against

Your computer is far superior to mine.

NB: Antonym: inferior


be geared to sb. / sth.: be organized in a way that is suitable for a particular purpose or situation

The typical career pattern was geared to men whose wives didn’t work.

Education should be geared to the children’s needs and abilities.


pass for sb. / sth.:be (mistakenly) accepted or considered as

With my hair cut short, I could have passed for a boy.

I can’t imagine how this place passes for a five-star hotel! The service is dreadful.

You could pass for a teenager.

你可以冒充十几岁的人。

His English is so good that he could pass for a native.


concern: vt.be about

This study concerns couples’ expectations of marriage.

The report concerns the drug traffic on the Mexican-US border.

这篇文章写的是一个被误抓入狱的人。

This article concerns a man who was wrongly imprisoned.


well-being: n. a feeling of being comfortable, healthy, and happy

A good meal promotes a feeling of well-being.

We are responsible for the care and well-being of all our patients.

The warm sunny weather always gives me a sense of well-being.


realistic: adj. judging and dealing with situations in a practical way according to what is actually possible rather than what you would like to happen

It’s just not realistic to expect a promotion so soon.

You need to be realistic about the amount you can do in a day.

They were much more realistic about its long-term commercial prospects.

NB: Antonym: unrealistic


delegate: n. someone who has been elected or chosen to speak, vote, or take decisions for a group

Around 350 delegates attended the conference.

She was our delegate at the party conference.

CF: delegate, deputy & representative这些名词均有“代表、代理人”之意。

一般指被派参加某一会议的代表。指上级授权代理行事的代表，特指被选择为执行全部或部分公务的人。一般指被选举或委派代表某人或一些人或某个较大团体的人，其职务有时是较长期的。

delegatedeputyrepresentative


1. You can talk with my during my absence.

2. Mary is a workers’ on the board.

3. He was elected as a to the annual conference.


deputy______

representative___________

delegate________


influential: adj. having a lot of influence and therefore having the power to change / impact / influence the way people think and behave

It is a highly influential art magazine.

Dewey was influential in shaping economic policy.

Bob Dylan was listed as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the 20th century.


eternal: adj. lasting forever; without beginning or end

Do you believe in eternal life?

Rome has been called the Eternal City.

I couldn’t stand their eternal quarrelling.

我不能忍受他们争吵不休。

Collocation:

eternal truth 永恒的真理eternal triangle 三角恋爱


denial: n. refusal to admit the truth of a statement or to grant sth. asked for

Your denial of his request hurt him.

The government has issued a firm denial of this rumor.

The prisoner repeated denials of the charges against him.

Collocation:

give a denial to 否认，拒绝a flat denial 断然否认


ultimate:n. fundamental principle; final point or result

This car is the ultimate in luxury.

adj. fundamental; final; greatest

Hard work is the ultimate source of success.

Our ultimate objective is the removal of all nuclear weapons.

He gave his life and thereby paid the ultimate price.

The sun is the ultimate source of energy.

太阳是能量的最基本来源。


Collocation:

ultimate objective 最终目标 ultimate truth 最终真理 ultimate deterrent 最后威慑力量（指核武器） ultimate principle 基本原理 ultimate production 总产量 ultimate yield （加工后产品的）最终收率 the ultimate ends of the world 天涯海角


paralyze: vt.make powerless or unable to act, move or function

Her legs were partly paralyzed in the crash.

Fear of unemployment is paralyzing the economy.

The electricity failure paralyzed the water supply.

停电使供水陷于瘫痪。


consequent: adj.following as a result

Severe flooding was consequent on the heavy rain.

A severe flood struck the city and there was a consequent shortage of food.

Competition in the market has led to goods being produced cheaply and a consequent deterioration in quality.

市场上的竞争导致了商品的廉价生产，随之质量也下降了。


curriculum: n. the subjects that are taught by a school, college, etc., or the things that are studied in a particular subject

IT is now on the curriculum in most schools.

Languages are an essential part of the school curriculum.


regardless: adj. without being affected or influenced by something

The law requires equal treatment for all, regardless of race, religion, or sex.

Pattern:

regardless of

I’ll take the job regardless of the pay.

不管报酬多少我都要这份工作。


discern: vt. see, notice, or understand, esp. with difficulty; perceive

He was just able to discern the road in the dark.

I soon discerned that the man was lying.

我马上察觉出那人在撒谎。

Officials were keen to discern how much public support there was.


CF: discern, discriminate & distinguish这些动词均有“区别、辨别”之意。

语义较笼统，强调进行精深与准确的观察，不一定有能分辨关系密切的各项事物的含义。语气强，指从十分相似的事物中辨出差异，尤其把好坏区分开来。普通用词，指辨别者依靠能力或通过实际观察发现区别，强调辨别所需的技巧。

discern

discriminatedistinguish

1. Can you good books from bad ones?

2. In the gloom I could only the outline of a building.

3. I can my roommates by their footsteps.

4. One can faintly the flavor of lemons.


discriminate__________

discern______

distinguish_________

discern______


relate: vt. connect in thought or meaning

The report seeks to relate the rise in crime to an increase in unemployment.

It is difficult to relate cause and effect in this case.

Can you relate what happened in your childhood to your present state of mind?


stake: vt. risk losing something that is valuable or important to you on the result of something

He staked all his money on the risky business.

Jim staked his whole fortune on one card game.

I have staked all my hopes on you.

我已经把我所有的希望都寄托在你身上了。


oppose: vt. set oneself against; set up against

They opposed the government’s new policies.

Don’t oppose your will against mine.

Pattern:

as opposed to sth.:used to compare two things and show that they are different from each other

This is a book about business practice as opposed to theory.


CF: oppose, protest & resist这些动词均含“反对”之意。是普通用词，含义广，多指反对一些较重大的事，隐含其正当性。例如：

一般指通过言语、文字或行为表示出强烈的抗议、反对。例如：

指用力量或意志抵抗、制止对方的入侵或诱惑、影响等。例如：

oppose

protest

resist

Our members opposed making concessions on the safety question.

我们的成员反对在安全问题上让步。

Demonstrators protested outside the country’s embassies all over Europe.

该国驻欧洲各国的大使馆外都有群众进行示威抗议。

The city resisted the enemy onslaught for two weeks.

这个城市反抗敌人的猛攻达两个星期之久。


1. Useful Expressions

2. Blank Filling

3. Vote for the Best Definition

4. Discussion

5. Picture Talking

6. Writing Practice

7. Proverbs and Quotations

1. 少数

2. 寻求自由

3. 免于匮乏的自由

4. 免于恐惧的自由

5. 国内和全世界

6. 面临着丧失的危险

7. 达到自己最佳水平的自由

8. 从某人身边悄悄溜走

a handful of

in search of freedom

freedom from want

freedom from fear

at home and throughout the world

in danger of losing

the freedom to be one’s best

slip away from sb.

Useful Expressions


9. 被迫大声呼救

10. 接管

be driven to cry for help

take over

11. 私立学校 independent school


13. 入学要求

14. 被认为民主 15. 弃之一边

entrance requirements

pass for democracy

throw aside

16. 道德品质 moral fiber

17. 时代所提出的前所未有的挑战

18. 永恒的真理

19. 绝对的道德准则

21. 最富有挑战性的课程

22. 造诣颇深的钢琴家

the unprecedented challenges of the age

eternal truth

absolute moral law

the most challenging curriculum

an accomplished pianist

20. 毁灭性的、无处不在的自私自利 paralyzing mass selfishness

12. 公立学校 public school


24. 严格的训练

25. 剥夺孩子的失败权

26. 让人终生受用不尽

a disciplined training

deprive our children of the right to fail

stake one’s whole life on sth.

23. 在电视机前 in front of a television set

Blank Filling


Fill in each blank in the following paragraph with the appropriate words and phrases from the text.

More than 300 years ago, a few pioneers came to where it is now America in search of freedom. Although the early settlers’ are still fighting to protect the four freedoms now, they are losing the fifth freedom:

. I believe the loss of this freedom is due to three The first misunderstanding is about the meaning of . The lack of an outstanding course for the student and the lack of a standard which a boy or girl must meet democracy. The second misunderstanding concerns what makes for . We believe that our softening standards bring happiness and tougher subjects should be . The third misunderstanding is in the area of .

Directions:

democracy_________misunderstandings________________.

the freedom to bedescendants ___________

one’s best

outstanding__________pass for_______

happiness_________thrown away__________

values_____

_______________________


Vote for the Best Definition

Directions: Divide the class into groups. Each group tries to give a definition of freedom, democracy, and happiness and find evidence to support their definitions. Finally the whole class vote for the best definition of freedom, democracy and happiness.


Discussion

Directions: Divide the class into groups. Each group chooses a topic for discussion, and one of the group members will summarize the group’s major opinions.

1. Softening standards bring happiness. 2. Challenge is essential for one’s development. 3. Freedom is not only a privilege, it is a test.


Picture Talking

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Writing Practice — Précis Writing

1. A Brief Introduction

A précis is a clear, orderly, concise, boiled-down summary which preserves the organization and principal content of the original. A précis is shorter than the original, usually about a fourth to a third as long. To write an effective précis, you must identify yourself with the author. This technique requires careful reading and thoughtful selection of words. Follow the steps below to accomplish this task: 1. Read the passage carefully and make sure that you understand completely what the author is saying. 2. Underline the main points. 3. Transfer these points onto rough paper, using your own words as far as possible. 4. Link up the main points into logical sentences.


5. Compare your version with the text and make sure you haven’t missed any points. 6. Count the number of words and make adjustments if necessary. 7. Make a fair copy of the finished version.


2. Homework

In this part, you are supposed to write a précis of The Loss of the Fifth Freedom in about 150 words. Based on the three misunderstandings mentioned in the text, try to explain how Americans have begun to lose this freedom.

Directions:

Proverbs and Quotations

1. No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

所有的人都自由了，个人才能完全自由；所有的人都有道德，个人才能完全合乎道德；所有的人都幸福了，个人才能真正幸福。

2. Freedom lies in being bold.

自由在于勇敢。

3. The more we experience our freedom, the more we recognize that of others.


我们越感到自己的自由，就越承认他人的自由。

5. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances.

— Leonhard Frank, German novelist

美国同胞们，不要问国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你们能为国家做些什么。全世界的公民们，不要问美国将为你们做些什么，而要问我们共同能为人类的自由做些什么。 —— 美国总统约翰 · 肯尼迪

人的任何东西都可以被拿走，但有一样东西不行，这就是在特定环境下选择自己的生活态度的自由。

—— 德国小说家莱昂哈德· 弗兰克


4. My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

— John Kennedy, American president

只有由受过教育的人民组成的国家才能保持自由。 —— 美国总统托马斯 · 杰斐逊


6. Only a nation of educated people could remain free. — Thomas Jefferson, American president

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