自由是按照我们意愿生活的权利。
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
我一直认为发明家有权享有他的劳动成果。
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.