It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

  • -- Dorothy Thompson 多萝西汤普森

最终决定自由是否存在的不是自由的事实,而是自由的行使方式。

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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

一个酒鬼在阴沟里正是他应该呆的地方,这是根据事情的发展趋势而定的。大自然给他安排了一个衰微和解体的过程,通过这个过程,她除去了那些无用的东西。

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

诗人的卷轴将比石头的纪念碑更耐久。天才生存;其他的一切都是由死亡来支配的。

Without true freedom and some kind of honor I cannot live.

没有真正的自由和某种荣誉,我无法生存。

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

自由的传播是自由的最佳保障。