A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政府
Government
I was with you in the days of glory. At the head of the Government, I shall remain with you during the days of darkness. Stay by my side.
我在荣耀的日子，与你们同在。我将在黑暗的日子里，与你同在。留在我身边。
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。
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
明智的是谁?向每个人学习的人。强大的是谁?控制自己激情的人。谁是富人?知足者常乐。那是谁?没有人。
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
每个社会都会受到应有的惩罚。同样真实的是，每个社区都得到了它所坚持的那种执法。
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.
为政以德，譬如北辰，居其所而众星共之。
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper. This dims the sense of reality.
在国家首都或企业内部实行中央集权，总是会美化纸张的重要性。这就模糊了现实的感觉。
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。
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。
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
不要因对我们的诬告而偏离我们的职责，也不要因对我们自己的毁灭或地牢的威胁而害怕。
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime. . .
在我看来，在人生的绚丽多姿中，真正有价值的不是国家，而是有创造力、有知觉的个体、有个性的人;它独自创造了崇高和崇高……
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
如果你一旦丧失了同胞们的信任，你就永远无法重新获得他们的尊重和尊重。的确，有时候你可能会愚弄所有的人;你甚至可以一直愚弄一些人;但是你不可能一直愚弄所有的人。
A man without a vote is man without protection.
没有投票权的人就是没有保护的人。
When great questions end, little parties begin.
当伟大的问题结束时，小聚会就开始了。
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.
全球比以往任何时候都更加认识到，如果没有健康的家庭、社区和国家，长期的社会、经济和环境发展将是不可能的。
I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.
除了人，我不知道还有什么能安全储存社会的终极力量。如果我们认为他们不够开明，补救措施不是剥夺他们的权力，而是通过教育来告知他们。