We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我们不能指望在羽毛床上从专制变成自由。

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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

要使自己的自由得到保障,就连敌人也必须保护自己不受压迫;因为如果他违反了这一义务,他就为自己树立了一个先例。

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

我们一定会失败……但失败时要以一种学习的姿态,下定决心不重蹈覆辙,并最大限度地从学习过程中获益。

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

自由不会降临到人民头上;一个民族必须奋起争取自由;这是一种必须先赢得才能享受的祝福。

We must be willing to see things as they are, rather than as we hope, wish, or expect them to be.

我们必须愿意看到事物的本来面目,而不是我们所希望、希望或期望的样子。