Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

  • -- Eric Liu 刘耀威

保守派忘记了公民身份不仅仅是对移民的一种保留。进步人士忘记了这不仅仅是一套权利。

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

波希米亚不过是一个你不住的小地方。如果你想在那里获得公民身份,朝廷和随从们立刻把王室的档案和财宝打包,搬到山那边去。

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

保守主义抛弃处方,逃避原则,否定进步;它拒绝一切对古代的尊重,对现在没有任何补偿,对未来也没有任何准备。

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

通过“激进”,我理解一个人走得太远;“保守主义者”指的是走得不够远的人;被一个“反动分子”,一个根本不愿去的人。

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

我们是一个移民国家,但我们也是一个法治国家。

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

首先,我们并不总是欢迎移民。

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

好公民的标准是对国家的忠诚。