And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

  • -- Caleb Cushing 卡莱布库欣

如果这所房子要被它的职责所吓倒,不管受到什么影响,去接受和听取人民的请愿,那么我将把我的声音送出这座国会大厦的高墙,要求纠正。

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There's been a lot of stuff. I always seem to be in the middle of it. ... It always seems like I'm in the middle of something. Even when I don't do anything I do something. I tried to stay out of everyone's way and not do anything, but it's just the way it seems to go for me. What can you do?

有很多东西。我似乎总是在它的中间。我好像总是在忙着什么。即使我什么都不做,我也会做点什么。我试着远离所有人,什么也不做,但这就是我的生活方式。你能做什么?

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

诺曼人手里拿着长矛走过来,把他们面前的一切都烧了,践踏了,用剑刃把撒克逊王朝和撒克逊贵族砍了个精光;但是请愿的权利仍然没有受到影响。

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

在我看来,拒绝接受一项请愿书,或由某种一般命令直接拒绝请愿书,与拒绝请愿权之间是无法区别的。

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

大多数人无法忍受沉默;它提供了太多的机会去思考他们宁愿避免的事情。