Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

自由不是达到更高政治目的的手段。这本身就是最高的政治目的。

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Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.

候选人不必面对现实。他们谈论他们能完成的美妙的事情,好像提倡它们和实现它们是一样的。他们生活在一个政治虚幻的世界里,从调和利益冲突到为昂贵的项目买单,一切都很容易。

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

个人的自由不是文明的礼物。在任何文明出现之前,它是最伟大的。

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

我所受的教育是一种自由,我可以不加选择地阅读,而且一直睁大眼睛。

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

经常炫耀妻子和钱包的人,有被人借走的危险。