With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

  • -- Robert Toombs 图姆斯

有了这些普通和非凡的巨大优势,人们会以为北方会心满意足,至少会尊重这些顺从而有益的兄弟们的安全与安宁;但这不是人类的本性。

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

释放熟悉和看似安全的东西,拥抱新的东西,需要很大的勇气。但在不再有意义的事情上没有真正的安全感。在冒险和刺激中有更多的安全感,因为在行动中有生命,在变化中有力量。

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

如果你真的想从更大的方面展示权力,你需要展示对无权者的影响,无论是好是坏——公共工程的人力成本。这就是我想做的,不仅展示权力是如何运作的,也展示它对人们的影响。

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

在人类的本性中,没有什么比向我们的同类行善的倾向更像上帝了。

The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

普通人不想要自由。他只是想要安全。