解释：阻塞老百姓的嘴，好比阻塞河水。河流如果堵塞后一旦再决堤，伤人一定很多，人民也是这样。不可堵塞民众的言论，不给他们发表自己想法的机会。如这样去做，将比堵塞江河带来的后果更严重。

I'm not afraid to take an idea to the extreme.

"A good story is one that stays with you long after you've finished reading it."

Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government," and as such constituted the "end of history."