Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

武力和欺诈是战争中的两大基本美德。

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We took away their country and their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decay among them and it was for this and against this they made war. Could anyone expect less?

我们夺走了他们的国家和生活来源,打破了他们的生活方式和生活习惯,给他们带来了疾病和腐败,他们就是为了这个而战,为了这个而战。有人能期望更低吗?

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

和一个绅士在一起,我永远是一个半绅士;和一个骗子在一起,我试图成为一个半骗子。

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

我觉得战争只应该发生在最重要和必要的原因,而且只有在那时。

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

武力是专制主义的根本原则和直接根源。

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

在温柔不起作用的地方,武力是正当的。

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

宁可光荣地失败,也不愿欺诈地成功。