Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  • -- George Haven Putnam 乔治黑文普特南

不要因对我们的诬告而偏离我们的职责,也不要因对我们自己的毁灭或地牢的威胁而害怕。

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I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.

除了人,我不知道还有什么能安全储存社会的终极力量。如果我们认为他们不够开明,补救措施不是剥夺他们的权力,而是通过教育来告知他们。

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

每个社会都会受到应有的惩罚。同样真实的是,每个社区都得到了它所坚持的那种执法。

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

与不可抗拒的时间的力量作斗争是没有用的,时间通过不断的破坏过程不断地创造着。

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

悲观主义者是在空中建造地牢的人。