The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

  • -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 阿克顿

一个人如果把自己的国家看得比任何其他义务都重要,那么他的精神就和一个人把自己的一切权利都交给国家一样。他们都否认权利高于权威。

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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

有什么法律,有什么理由能否认上帝赐予我们的如此甜美、如此自然的礼物呢?

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

没有什么比一个朋友相信他比另一个朋友优越更能加强友谊了。

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

什么可以,什么不可以,到最后总会屈服于必须存在的东西。

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

自由——自由地走,没有优越。