No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

  • -- Elihu Root 伊莱休·鲁特

现在,没有一个国家在它所宣称的觊觎战利品的土地上掠夺另一个国家。

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

作为个人和国家,我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声,原始美洲,已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象,爱上了自己创造的形象,而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

危害国家安全的财产不应继续掌握在公民手中。