A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政府
Government
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
我现在要证明的是，墨西哥人完全没有能力自治，只要我们与他们联系在一起，我们的自由、我们的财富和我们的生活就没有保障。
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。
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
有时人们说，人不能把自己托付给别人。那么他能被别人信任吗?我们岂是遇见天使作王治理他呢。让历史来回答这个问题。
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。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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……
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
我们的主要责任是不要把口号错当成解决方案。
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。
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。