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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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

现代宪政的发展，迫使构成选民的公民个体成功地行使理性和深思熟虑的判断。

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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

人类生活了许多年，统治着地球，有时明智，有时良好，但大多数都不是。

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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

贫困和缺乏知识必须受到挑战。

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To have nothing is not poverty.

一无所有并不代表贫穷。

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