I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

  • -- George Mason IV 乔治梅森四世

我退出了公共事务,因为我深信我没有能力做任何好事,我对那些在我看来与共同政策和正义不一致的措施深恶痛绝。

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

对一个领导者的最后考验是,他把信念和意志留给其他人。

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

有一种含蓄的信念是,联合国将比其成员国的总和更强大。