There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

  • -- Andrew Jackson 安德鲁·杰克逊

一想到要脱离联邦,我就不寒而栗。我虔诚地祈求上帝不要发生这样的事情,如果真的发生了,从那天起,我就会看到我们的自由消失了。

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Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

人是一种手段而不是目的,他是达到经济或政治目的的一种手段,而经济或政治目的本身并不是真正的目的,而是达到其他目的的手段,而这些目的反过来又是手段,如此无穷。

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

真正的天才对不完整的东西感到不寒而栗——他通常宁愿保持沉默,也不愿说一些不应该说的话。

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

个人自由是人类进步的必要前提。

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

科索沃的命运显然是在某个时候加入欧盟。

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

当美德自由时,某种程度上罪恶也自由了。

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

为什么要去别的地方重新开始呢?