It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

  • -- John Philpot Curran 约翰·菲尔波特·柯伦

懒汉的共同命运是看到他们的权利成为积极分子的牺牲品。上帝赋予人自由的条件是永远保持警惕;如果他打破了这一条件,奴役就是他犯罪的结果,也是对他罪行的惩罚。

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Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

我们的本性被匮乏或恐惧的强迫所做的工作所遮蔽。母亲在为孩子服务的过程中表现出她自己,所以我们真正的自由不是行动的自由,而是行动的自由,只有在爱的工作中才能获得。

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

和平不是你所希望的;它是你创造的东西,是你做的东西,是你是谁,是你付出的东西。

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

自由已经付出了太多的鲜血和痛苦,不能以廉价的言辞换取自由。

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

君子欲讷于言,而敏于行。