Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

  • -- James Madison Jr 詹姆斯·麦迪逊

学术机构应该是每一个自由人民最喜爱的对象。它们使公众意识到,这是防止狡诈和危险侵犯公众自由的最佳保障。

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Things will get hard and it is perfectly okay to let them weigh on you. I think if we don't let these experiences get to us, then we aren't learning all the lessons.

事情会变得困难,让它们压在你身上是完全可以的。我认为,如果我们不让这些经历影响我们,那么我们就不能吸取所有的教训。

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

联合国的失败- -回顾过去,我的失败也许是我对安全理事会成员不够积极。

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。

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

我认为我们应该先考虑社会保障,然后再考虑减税。

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

领导者在学习时比在教学时更能成为强有力的榜样。

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

没有自由,一个国家不能很好地生存;没有美德,自由也不能很好地生存。