We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

我们在道义上有责任赡养老人、无助的婴儿和贫困,这远远超过满足宫廷奢侈的虚构需求。

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Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

商业是世界上最强大的机构之一,它创造财富和机会,帮助人们摆脱贫困。当你这样想的时候,那么商业和发展政策并不是分开的。

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

用自己的美德来治理国家的人可以比作北极星,它保持着它的位置,所有的星星都朝着它转。

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

把我们从官僚主义中拯救出来的唯一办法就是效率低下。一个有效率的官僚机构是对自由的最大威胁。

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

贫穷并不可耻,可耻的是为贫穷感到羞耻。