把这一句，留给此刻的你

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

对你们来说，国家是一个有自己目的的实体，人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说，这个词只是一个标签，用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

— Elliot Lee Richardson 李理查森