Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

在一个普遍腐败的民族中,自由不可能长久存在。

相关名言

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

个性是政治自由的目标。通过给予公民与秩序和他人权利相适应的行动自由和生存自由,这些制度使他成为真正的自由人。他可以用自己的方式追求自己的幸福。

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

我所说的自由,是指确保每个人在做他认为是他的职责的事情时受到保护,不受权威、多数、习俗和意见的影响。

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

我把它称为人与人之间的政治,这就是政治的意义所在,相互帮助,相互影响,我们要做的事情。

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

当一个人站起来讲话时,人们先听后看。当一个女人站起来时,人们会感到恶心;然后,如果他们喜欢他们所看到的,他们就会倾听。

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

人就像动物。有些人被关在笼子里最快乐,有些人需要自由自在。你要认识到她的本性并接受它。

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

完全自由对商业的健康和活力的必要,正如对公民的健康和活力的必要一样。