英語經(jīng)典美文誦讀100篇：098.liberty is order
[00:10.68]Liberty is order.Liberty is strength. Look round the world, and admire, as you must, the instructive spectacle.
[00:21.35]You will see that liberty not only is power and order,
[00:25.80]but that it is power and order predominant and invincible - that it derides all other sources of strength.
[00:35.95]And shall the preposterous imagination be fostered,
[00:40.04]that men bred in liberty - the first of humankind who asserted the glorious distinction of forming for themselves
[00:48.05]their social compact - can be condemned to silence upon their rights? Is it to be conceived that men who have enjoyed,
[01:00.21]for such a length of days, the light and happiness of freedom,
[01:06.02]can be restrained, and shut up again in the gloom of ignorance and degradation?
[01:14.59]As well, sir, might you try, by a miserable dam, to shut up the flowing of a rapid river!
[01:23.15]The rolling and impetuous tide would burst through every impediment that man might throw in its way;
[01:31.11]and the only consequence of the impotent attempt would be, that,
[01:36.95]having collected new force by its temporary suspension, enforcing itself through new channels,
[01:44.68]it would spread devastation and ruin on every side.
[01:50.02]The progress of liberty is like the progress of the stream.
[01:55.51]Kept within its bounds, it is sure to fertilize the country through which it runs;
[02:01.06]but no power can arrest it in its passage; and short sighted, as well as wicked,
[02:08.47]must be the heart of the projector that would strive to divert its course.
