The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

战争的基本行为是毁灭,不一定是毁灭人类的生命,而是毁灭人类劳动的产物。

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

不要因对我们的诬告而偏离我们的职责,也不要因对我们自己的毁灭或地牢的威胁而害怕。

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

未来的浪潮不是用一种教条主义征服世界,而是解放自由国家和自由人民的各种力量。

We were a people taut for war; the hills Were no harder, the thin grass Clothed them more warmly than the coarse Shirts our small bones.

我们是一个严阵以待的民族;小山并不比我们的小骨头穿的粗布衣服更硬,薄薄的草也不比它们更暖和。

In a time of destruction, create something.

在毁灭的时刻,创造一些东西。