I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

  • -- Woodrow Wilson 伍德罗威尔逊

我宁愿属于一个自由的穷国,也不愿属于一个不再热爱自由的富国。

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That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

更专制的组织能够生存下来并取得胜利,这一点通常没有引起注意,因为人们关注的是组织的目标,这些目标是多种多样的,而不是它们的结构,因为这些结构很相似。

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

因为只有当你珍惜法律,当无法无天的人的革命企图停止时,你才会强大。

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

死亡不会影响生者,因为它还没有发生。死亡与死者无关,因为他们已不复存在。

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

我们的房子是如此笨重的财产,以至于我们经常被囚禁而不是被他们所居住。