The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

自由之树必须不时地以爱国者和暴君的鲜血来更新。

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In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own.

在每一个国家、每一个时代,牧师都对自由怀有敌意;他总是忠于暴君,教唆他滥用权力,以换取自己的保护。

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

我希望我能冻结时间,或者回到过去,看着我的孩子们重新长大,因为时间过得太快了。

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

完全自由对商业的健康和活力的必要,正如对公民的健康和活力的必要一样。

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

选举是一种道德上的恐怖,除了流血之外,它和战争一样糟糕;为每一个与之有关的灵魂洗个泥浴。

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

要花很长时间才能明白,法庭是世界上最不可能了解真相的地方。

My blood ran with this ink.

我的血和这种墨水混在一起了。