No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

  • -- William Gilmore Simms 威廉·吉尔默·西姆斯

在一个让意见自由发挥的国家里,任何意见的错误都不可能是危险的。

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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

我所知道的任何失败,我所犯的任何错误,我在私人生活和公共生活中所看到的任何愚蠢,都是不假思索地采取行动的结果。

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

为了观点而压迫任何一个人,除了加深这些观点并使它们变得更重要之外,很少有其他效果。

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

作为人类,我们是基因的精英,是无数基因事故和转录错误的结合体。

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

你必须是恒温器而不是温度计。恒温器塑造舆论氛围;温度计刚好能反射它。