To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

纳税与讨人喜悦,如同爱人与智慧,都不是给人的。

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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

没有野心的人是死的。一个有野心但没有爱的人是死的。在这个世界上,一个对自己的祝福充满雄心和爱心的人是如此的充满活力。

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

一次又一次,我们听到政客们说,在经济如此脆弱的时候,他们不能把我们的税金花在环境保护上。

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

推动经济增长的最大障碍之一是资本利得税率。我建议把它归零。

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

世界就是它;那些什么都不是的人,那些让自己成为什么都不是的人,在其中没有位置。