There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  • -- Ida M. Tarbell 塔贝尔

如果一个人认为一个人所做的一切都应该是正确和可靠的,即使是确定一个关税税率也必须是合乎道德的,那么他拒绝接受这一观点,认为这是一个处于权力地位的人所面临的最大危险。

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The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

法律总是建立在道德观念的基础上,如果所有代表道德选择的法律都要根据正当程序条款被废除,法庭将会非常忙碌。

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

我开始接受领跑者的生活是艰难的,他会比大多数人遭受更多的伤害,而这些伤害中有许多不是偶然的。

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

人不接受他们的先知,也不杀害他们,却爱他们的先烈,敬拜那些被他们折磨致死的人。

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

即使一个罪犯没有法律形式的惩罚也比他逃跑更危险。

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

基于经济和道德方面的证据,我不认为我们能走得更远。

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

梦想中的装甲车,让我们做了那么多危险的事情。