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We know it because, if we look below the surface, we sense it still spreading on every continent
我們知道民主不會死亡．因為如果我們透過表面看問題、就會感覺到它仍在每一片大陸上擴展,
for it is the most humane, the most advanced, and in the end the most unconquerable of all forms of human society.
因為它是最人道、最先進，說到底也是最不可征服的人類社會形式。
A nation, like a person, has a body—a body that must be fed and clothed and housed, invigorated and rested, in a manner that measures up to the standards of our time.
國家象人一樣有一個身體——它必須以我們時代的目標為標準，得到吃、穿、住、活動和休息。
A nation, like a person, has a mind—a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself,
國家象人一樣有一個腦袋——它必須了解情況和處于戒備狀態。它必須了解自己，
that understands the hopes and the needs of its neighbors all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.
了解鄰居的希望和需要，這個鄰居就是生活在這個狹小世界范圍內的所有其他國家。
And a nation, like a person, has something deeper, something more permanent, something larger than the sum of all its parts.
國家象人一樣不止是各個部分的總和，它還有更深、更廣、更持久的東西。
It is that something which matters most to its future which calls forth the most sacred guarding of its present.
這就是最關系到它的前途的東西——喚起民眾最神圣地保衛其現在的東西。
It is a thing for which we find it difficult even impossible to hit upon a single, simple word.
對這件東西，我們發覺很難，甚至不可能用一句簡單的話來表達。
And yet we all understand what it is the spirit the faith of America.
不過，我們都了解它是什么——它是精神——它是美國的信念。
It is the product of centuries. It was born in the multitudes of those who came from many lands some of high degree,
它是好幾個世紀的結晶。它是在大批群眾中產生的、他們來自世界上的許多地方,有一些人層次較高、
but mostly plain people, who sought here, early and late, to find freedom more freely.
但大多數是普通人，他們在此致力于總有一天能更不受約束地尋找自由。
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
在人類歷史上，渴望民主并不是最近階段的事情．它本身就是一部人類史。
It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the middle ages. It was written in Magna Charta.
這樣的例子在古代各國人民的生活中俯拾即是。它在中世紀重新燃起了火炬。它被載入了英國大憲章。
