A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政府
Government
It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes.
这是一个模式。物价上涨，消费者愤怒，政客调查，没有任何改变。
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
国家不是道德的行动者，而是人，而且可以将道德标准强加给强大的机构。
I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
我相信，一个国家元首所能拥有的最大财富就是能够睡个好觉。
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
我是如此的荣幸，宇宙选择我作为点燃熊熊烈火的火花。
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。
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
我不介意国会做什么，只要他们不在大街上这么做，不吓唬那些马就行了。
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
一个私人家庭的烦恼并不比管理整个国家的烦恼少多少。
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
我们人类需要，也应该有一个头脑清醒、对世界如何运转有基本了解的公民。
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
惩罚是立法者手中预防犯罪的最后和最不有效的工具。
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。
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
我在大学里没有即兴表演，我从来没有表演过，我也没有演过戏剧。我在学生会，我是历史专业的。
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
一个繁荣的、道德可信的媒体是维持真正的公开谈话、关于共同利益的辩论的一个重要组成部分。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A man without a vote is man without protection.
没有投票权的人就是没有保护的人。
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
任何人都没有侵犯他人平等权利的自然权利，这就是法律应该约束他的一切。
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
那些管理着大量事务的人通常不喜欢考虑和执行新项目。因此，最好的公共措施很少从以前的智慧中采取，而是因势利导。
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.
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。
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.
简而言之，人的真正恶意只出现在国家和教会中，作为一种聚集、概括和总和的制度。
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
妥协曾经意味着半条面包总比没有好。在现代政治家中，这似乎真的意味着半条面包比整条面包好。