A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
国家
Nation
We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.
我们是一个同样害怕聚在一起和孤独的国家。
The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
这个国家……不只是需要我们所拥有的。它需要我们是什么。
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
没有上帝和圣经，就不可能正确地治理一个国家。
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
但是，我们毕竟是一个年轻的国家，虚荣心是年轻的错误。
Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
我们国家的灵魂在这里安息，我们的良知也应该在这里安息。
After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.
在一场大战之后，一个国家在一代人或更长的时间内都不想要另一个。
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
我们正处于战争之中，我们作为一个国家的安全依赖于赢得这场战争。
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
一个不愿意把自己的一切都押在荣誉上的国家是毫无价值的。
No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.
任何人都无权定出一个民族行进的边界。
It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
探索是我们的使命。成为一个航天国家是我们的命运。
I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
我一直是“好人”，我承担着这个国家愚蠢的混蛋。
I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
我有点担心每个人都希望我们客观。
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A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth.
少数人为生存而战比一个国家为财富而战更强大。
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.
现在出生的许多人，到他们成为选民的时候，将成为这个国家的一部分，而这个国家的天才是其他任何地方都无法比拟的，而且这个国家拥有广阔的领土，可以让这些能量和天才发挥作用。
Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
我们的国家必须为退伍军人提供足够的医疗保健、足够的福利，以及他们所承诺的、也是他们迫切需要的补充资源。我们同样欠我们的英雄。
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
一个忘记过去的国家，其功能不会比一个失忆的人更好。
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.
大小不伟大，领土不构成一个国家。
Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
只有当我们每一个人和每一个国家都学会爱全人类的秘密时，世界才会成为一个伟大的管弦乐队，跟随最伟大的指挥家的节拍。