An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

  • -- Friedrich List 李斯特

个人在维护自己的利益时,可能损害社会公共利益;一个国家在促进一般福利时,可以检查其部分成员的利益。

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Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

哈佛产生的领导人。拥有哈佛学位的人会成为国家教育部门和全国公立学校的高层管理者。

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

所有重要的事实都是私人的事实。当它们公诸于众时,就不再成为真理;它们成为事实,或者至多成为公众性格的一部分;或者最坏的情况是,流行语。

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

这一立场是站不住脚的,在把充分的政治权力和责任赋予全国所有妇女之前,不能停止要求充分的政治权力和责任的鼓动。

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

一旦一个国家放弃了对其信用的控制,谁来制定法律就不重要了。

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

我对过去不感兴趣,只对未来的路感兴趣。

The study of music was a family interest.

学习音乐是一个家庭的爱好。