One of our most fatal errors is assuming that our principles will insure their own observance.

  • -- Shraga Silverstein 施拉格·西尔弗斯坦

我们最致命的错误之一是假定我们的原则将确保它们自己得到遵守。

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

养育孩子的首要原则是选择一位好母亲。