It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

  • -- Dick Cheney 迪克·切尼

当自由从未被夺走时,你很容易把它视为理所当然。

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

大多数人都有一种近乎无限的能力,认为一切都是理所当然的。人不能从历史的教训中学到很多东西,这是所有历史教训中最重要的一条。

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society

自由之于集体,健康之于每一个个体。没有健康,人就尝不到快乐;没有自由,社会就不能享受幸福

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

首先,人们想当然地认为欧盟创造了世界上最大的经济空间。

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

任何形式的自由很少会突然丧失。