Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

普遍地启发人民,身体和精神的暴政和压迫就会像邪恶的幽灵一样在黎明时分消失。

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But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

但我要告诉人们的是,无论有没有条件,你都可以做任何你下定决心要做的事情。你只需要用一种和其他人稍微不同的方式来做。

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

反对理性的人是真正的叛逆者,但为捍卫理性而反对暴政的人比乔治三世更有资格捍卫信仰。

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

为了观点而压迫任何一个人,除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外,很少有其他效果。

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

一般来说,被吸引到新闻业的人对自下而上发生的事情更感兴趣,而不是自上而下。

Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

学会要求你想要的。最糟糕的情况是,别人没有给你想要的东西,而你恰恰在开口之前就得到了。

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

如果人民失去他们的粗暴和反抗精神,暴政就不会在任何一周、任何一天、任何时刻降临这个国家。

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

每个人都应该下定决心,如果他想要成功,他必须诚实地回报他人的金钱。

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

你若看见穷人受欺压,又看见公平公义在一国被践踏,不要惊惶。

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

虽然我通常对生母的事情保持沉默,但她最近的长篇大论已经发生了重大转变。

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

女人的衣服应该像带刺的铁丝网一样:既能达到目的,又不会挡住视线。

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

上帝把我定位成这样,就像我一样,我说什么就说什么,我怎么说就怎么说。

People must buy into the leader before they will but into the vision.

人们必须先相信领导者,然后才会相信愿景。