If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

-- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

如果你不准备使用武力来保卫文明，那么就准备好接受野蛮。

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Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.

想想你打开前门时的那种舒适的感觉。这只是一个暗示，当我们有一天到达天父亲自为我们预备的天堂时，我们会有怎样的感觉。最终，我们将以一种难以描述的方式永远“自在”。

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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

要使一个国家从最低的野蛮状态发展到最富裕的状态，除了和平、轻松的税收和可容忍的司法制度之外，没有什么别的必要条件:其余的一切都是由事物的自然进程所带来的。

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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

虽然准备好了殉道，我还是宁愿推迟。

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