I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我宁愿承受太多自由带来的不便,也不愿承受太少自由带来的不便。

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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

小痛苦,像小债务,我们在很多地方,并满足我们很多转身角落,重量,他们想要的东西,他们的数量,并使它更少的有害站一个炮弹的火,凌空组成的这样一个淋浴的子弹。

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

达尔文先生提供了一些惊人而巧妙的例子,说明了这个原理是如何部分地影响生命的链条,或者说是网络的,甚至是某些网格的完全消失。

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

科索沃是一个小国,但它也有很多上帝赐予我们的财富。

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

也许一个人要到很老的时候才能学会被逗乐而不是被震惊。

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

在必要的事上要团结,在不必要的事上要自由,在一切事上要慈悲。

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

因为自由除了将意志毫无阻碍地转化为行动之外,还能是什么呢?