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Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

  • -- Rufus Matthew Jones 鲁弗斯·马修·琼斯

国家不是暴徒。他们是聪明人的身体。

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

当领导人选择让自己成为受欢迎程度的竞标者时，他们在国家建设中的才能将毫无用处。他们将成为奉承者，而不是立法者;人民的工具，而不是向导。

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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

没有过去的国家在某些方面是矛盾的。造就一个国家的是过去，证明一个国家反对其他国家的正当性的是过去，历史学家是创造历史的人。

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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

民族就像植物和人类一样生长。如果发展受阻，它们就会变得渺小和黯然失色。

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Whenever one person stands up and says, 'Wait a minute, this is wrong,' it helps other people to do the same.

每当一个人站起来说，‘等一下，这是错的’，它就会帮助其他人也这么做。

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