We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

  • -- Samuel Rutherford 拉瑟福德

除了善良或邪恶的良心,我们什么也不会带进坟墓……的确,良心的恐惧使我们沮丧;我们若没有良心的恐惧,就不能复活。

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I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

我认为,在保护我们的基本自由和公民自由的同时,成功地满足我们的国家安全需要,需要国会继续进行监督。

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。