To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

  • -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 伊丽莎白·凯迪·斯坦顿

制定人们不能也不愿遵守的法律,只会使所有的法律受到蔑视。

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First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

首先,我们本可以蔑视他们两个国家,本可以因为这违反国际法和干涉我们的中立权利而对这两个国家发动战争。

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

由其自身规律所产生的诗歌,在所谓的审美、判断、演绎的客观原则方面,可能是未实现的,是不好的。

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

没有什么是一成不变的,只有人类与生俱来的不可剥夺的权利。

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

伟人从不抱怨缺少机会。