By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

通过啃穿堤坝,即使是一只老鼠也可能淹死一个国家。

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

如果一个国家期望无知和自由,在文明的状态下,它期望的是过去和将来都不会发生的事情。

Not a nation there is, but there has passed away in it a warner.

那里没有一个国家,但却有一个华纳在那里去世了。