Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

  • -- Theodore Roosevelt 西奥多·罗斯福

没有自由的秩序和没有秩序的自由同样具有破坏性。

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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

只要人们愿意思考,世界上所有的问题都可以很容易地解决。问题是,人们常常为了不思考而使用各种各样的方法,因为思考是一项如此艰难的工作。

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

只有当所有的人,男人和女人,都同样自由的时候,我才是真正自由的。他人的自由非但不会否定或限制我的自由,相反,它是我自由的必要前提和确证。

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

肤浅的人认为自由是对一切法律和约束的解放。智者在其中看到的恰恰相反,是强有力的法律法则。

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

你应该善良,甚至迷信,在遵守你的诺言,因此在作出它们时同样谨慎。

I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order.

我必撤回我的保障。杀戮之后,我必恢复秩序。

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

因为自由除了将意志毫无阻碍地转化为行动之外,还能是什么呢?