To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

  • -- Adlai E. Stevenson II 阿德莱·史蒂文森二世

在危险的环境中保持冷静、明智和谨慎是对一个人,也是对一个国家的考验。

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It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

似乎我们的国家已经变成了一个只有摇滚歌手和棒球运动员为英雄的国家,没有一个正直的大个子可以被召唤来完成这项任务。

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

没有什么比带头开创新秩序更困难,更危险,更不确定其成功的了。

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

这个国家……不只是需要我们所拥有的。它需要我们是什么。

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

有野心的人手握伤害的力量是危险的。