A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政治
Political
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
有两种幸福的方式:我们必须要么减少我们的欲望，要么增加我们的手段——任何一种都可以——结果都是一样的，这是由每个人自己决定的，做那些碰巧更容易的事情。
You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.
你会发现事实裁决并不重要因为还有很多其他的媒体远没有那么负责任，他们都在谈论广告，其中一些是出于政治原因来推广它。
We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.
我们之间有一些真正的政治分歧，但我们都有共同的目标:清洁的空气和水，没有伤害的工作场所，安全的交通系统，举几个监管可以带来的好处。
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
现在是用权利的力量迫使男子给予妇女政治、法律和社会权利的时候了。她会根据自己的能力、能力和品味找到属于自己的天地;但她仍然是女人。
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
由于长命百岁，我经历过许多这样的事例:由于获得了更好的信息或更充分的考虑，我不得不改变自己的观点，甚至在一些重要的问题上也是如此。我曾经认为这些观点是正确的，但后来发现事实并非如此。
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
多年来所有的政治思想都以同样的方式被玷污了。人们只有在符合自己意愿的时候才能预见未来，而最明显的事实在不受欢迎的时候可以被忽略。
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
我做我所做的，写我所写的，没有计算什么是值得什么，等等。幸运的是，我既不是银行家也不是会计。我觉得有一段时间需要发表一份政治声明，而我做到了。
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
人民的声音据说是上帝的声音;而且，无论这句格言被引用和相信的程度有多普遍，它都不符合事实。人民是动荡多变的，他们很少判断或决定正确的。
I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.
我将尽我最大的努力，我的想法和政治观察，但最终我想创造一个故事，让你不断翻动书页，让你感觉这件事存在的理由。
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
政治意识形态是有形的现实这一事实并不能证明其至关重要的必要性质。黑死病是一个非常强大的社会现实，但没有人会认为它是必不可少的。
By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.
通过采访至少一名老兵，你可以保留那些否则可能会丢失的记忆。我的叔叔是一名二战中被击落的战斗机飞行员和战俘，我期待着把他的故事录下来，加入这个项目。
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
除非你在你的国家变得更加警惕，检查垄断的精神和对独家特权的渴望，否则你最终会发现……你对自己最大利益的控制权已经落入这些公司手中。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
地中海与北方或大西洋与中欧之间的交往从来不纯粹是经济或政治的;它还意味着知识和思想的交流以及社会制度、艺术和文学形式的影响。
I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
我相信我有权利把我的前政治生活看作是可以观察和判断的禁区。
I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
我不认为我们对他们的想法有很好的记录，除了，正如我今天早些时候指出的，他们确实发明了我们的政治体系。
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
就我们的政治利益而言，我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书，在他所处的环境中，读书是如此的容易，以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。
Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
候选人不必面对现实。他们谈论他们能完成的美妙的事情，好像提倡它们和实现它们是一样的。他们生活在一个政治虚幻的世界里，从调和利益冲突到为昂贵的项目买单，一切都很容易。
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
每个人都应该被认为是无赖，这是一条公正的政治格言。