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We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government bees destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, …… 我們認為以下真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等 , 造物主賦予他們某些不可轉讓的權利 , 其中包括生命權 、 自由權和追求幸福的權利。 為確保上述權力 , 政府必須獲得其正當權力的途徑必須是由被統(tǒng)治者授權 。 任何形式的政府 , 一旦破壞這些目標 , 人民就有權利去改變它或廢除它 , 并建立一個新的政府 …… 政府管制經(jīng)濟學 10 葛底斯堡演說 亞伯拉罕 〃 林肯, 1863年 11月 19日 87年前,我們的先輩們在這個大陸上創(chuàng)立了一個新國家,它孕育于自由之中,奉行一切人生來平等的原則?,F(xiàn)在我們正從事一場偉大的內(nèi)戰(zhàn),以考驗這個國家,或者任何一個孕育于自由和奉行上述原則的國家是否能夠長久存在下去。 …… 我們今天在這里所說的話,全世界不大會注意,也不會長久地記住,但勇士們在這里所做過的事,全世界卻永遠不會忘記。 …… 我們要使國家在上帝福佑下得到自由的新生, 要使這個民有、民治、民享的政府永世長存 。 GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Abraham Lincoln Delivered on the 19th Day of November, 1863 Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new Nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now, we are engaged in a great Civil War,testing whether that Nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. …… The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never fet what they did here. ……this Nation, under GOD, shall have a new birth of freedom。 and that government of the People by the People a