The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

  • -- Frederick Douglass 弗雷德里克·道格拉斯

只有当一个国家是诚实的、诚实的、有道德的时候,这个国家的生命才是安全的。

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To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

简而言之,人的真正恶意只出现在国家和教会中,作为一种聚集、概括和总和的制度。

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

那些赢得我们独立的人…将自由视为目的和手段。他们认为自由是幸福的秘密,勇气是自由的秘密。

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

他们在战争时期是爱国的,因为这符合他们的利益,但在和平时期,他们追随权力和美元,无论走到哪里。

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

一个私人家庭的烦恼并不比管理整个国家的烦恼少多少。