The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
政治机器之所以能取得胜利，是因为它是一个团结的少数群体对抗分裂的多数群体。
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
政治机器之所以能取得胜利，是因为它是一个团结的少数群体对抗分裂的多数群体。
The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
这位政治家受过不正确的艺术训练。他的话往往是生硬或圆滑的，因为如果这些话有锋利的锋芒，日后可能会反过来伤害他。
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
政客们都在大言不惭地说个不停。
The politics of numbers.
数字政治。
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.
我们社会的政治是一场对话，在这场对话中，过去、现在和未来都有发言权;虽然有一种或另一种可能在某些情况下会正确地占上风，但没有一种会永远占据主导地位，因此我们是自由的。
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
对公共事务漠不关心的代价是被坏人统治。
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.
问题是，拥有最荒谬想法的人，往往是那些最确定这些想法的人。
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
所许的愿是过去的必然，背的话是现在的必然。
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
政教分离的目的，是要永远把几个世纪以来浸透欧洲土地的无休止的冲突，从这些海岸上清除出去。
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
真正的分裂不是在保守派和革命者之间，而是在威权主义者和自由主义者之间。
The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such.
真正的撒旦教徒并不那么容易被认出来。
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
当一个人的权利受到威胁时，每个人的权利都会受到削弱。
The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
政治家的统治思想——说得相当直白——是那些反对他的人存在的目的是为他的目的服务，如果他能掌握足够的权力，把这些目的强加于人。
The secret of getting things done is to act!
把事情做好的秘诀就是行动!
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
最尖锐的批评往往伴随着最深刻的理想主义和对国家的热爱。