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We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
我们不应该接受一个政治家所能做的最好的平庸。
— Joe Manchin 乔·曼钦
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗Books are written by martyr-men, not for rich men alone but for all men. If we consider it, every human being has, by the nature of the case, a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
书是殉道者写的，不是只为富人写的，而是为所有人写的。如果我们仔细想想，每个人都有权利听到其他智者对他说过的话。这是人的权利之一;如果你对一个人否认，那是非常残酷的不公平!
Thomas Carlyle
托马斯·卡莱尔
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
那些想要变得伟大的人，既不应该爱自己，也不应该爱自己的东西，而应该只爱正义的东西，无论是自己做的还是别人做的。
Plato
柏拉图
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
制定法律的不是智慧，而是权威。
Thomas Hobbes
托马斯·霍布斯
It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
一位智者曾说过，没有什么比平等对待不平等更不平等的了。
Felix Frankfurter
费利克斯法兰克福
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
当我们处于少数时，勇气的考验就来了。当我们占多数的时候，宽容的考验就来了。
Ralph W. Sockman
拉尔夫·W·索克曼
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
善良，有了力量，就堕落了;没有力量的纯洁的爱会被摧毁。
Reinhold Niebuhr
莱茵霍尔德·尼布赫