The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

自由对个人的影响是,他们可以做他们喜欢做的事:我们应该先看看他们喜欢做什么,然后再冒险祝贺他们。

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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

全世界普通人的生命、自由、财产和幸福完全掌握在少数几个人的手中,他们从未见过,也从未听说过复杂的争吵。

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

我的祖母对我的生活产生了最戏剧性的影响,因为她让我朝一个方向前进,为了我的理智,为了我成为一个善于社交的人,我不得不回到另一个方向。

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

温室效应是一种你可以通过实验观察到的现象——而且大多数人都在温室里观察过温室效应。是吗?

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

任何形式的自由很少会突然丧失。