This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

  • -- Elmer Davis 艾莫尔·戴维斯

这个国家孕育于自由之中,奉行的原则包括:诚实的人可以诚实地提出异议;如果他们都能说出自己的想法,大多数人就能分清是非。

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The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

但是,恢复秩序作为一项普遍原则,同时也表明,秩序本身并不足以说明一般有组织的系统的性质,或特别是人类创造的系统的性质。

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

适度好的东西并不如它应该的那么好。适度的性情总是一种美德;但是原则上适度总是一种恶习。

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

在我的想象中,最可怕的事情莫过于失去做妻子的自由。

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

我有时认为,自由的代价与其说是永远的警惕,不如说是永远的肮脏。

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

一旦一个国家放弃了对其信用的控制,谁来制定法律就不重要了。

A good nation I will make live.

我要建立一个美好的国家。