Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

爱国主义。可燃的垃圾随时可以被任何一个野心勃勃的人点燃,照亮他的名字。

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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

当我们从旧时代跨入新时代,当一个时代结束,当一个长期受到压制的国家发出声音的时候,一个时刻来临了,这在历史上是罕见的。

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

一个国家是一个由对其祖先的错觉和对其邻国的共同仇恨而团结起来的社会。