It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.

  • -- Samuel Adams 塞缪尔·亚当斯

在自由和美德的事业中,成为少数派并不可耻。

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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

自由的进步更多地取决于维持和平、商业的发展和教育的普及,而不是内阁和驻外机构的工作。

Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.

自由主义是慷慨的最高形式;这是大多数人向少数人承认的权利,因此这是这个星球上有史以来最崇高的呼声。

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

扮演一个令人讨厌的角色的方法是,如果你能让他有一定的魅力,你就能逃脱很多。

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

这辆车是作品中的一个角色——我从来都不喜欢这辆车,我屈从于它令人讨厌的流行。

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

要安全地走过人生的迷宫,就需要智慧之光和美德的指引。

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

我的观点是,我不认为有多少真正的政治艺术是好的艺术。

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

当我们为后代做打算时,我们应该记住美德不是遗传的。

An argument derived from the abuse of a thing does not hold good against its use.

由滥用某物而产生的论点,对其使用是站不住脚的。

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

所有的历史都是少数民族力量的记录,也是一个民族的少数民族力量的记录。

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

哪怕是一秒钟的自由也比一辈子的奴役更有价值。