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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

  • -- William Pitt 威廉·皮特

无限的权力容易腐蚀拥有它的人的思想;诸位大人，我知道，法律的终点就是暴政的起点。

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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

他们说我腐败、轻浮。我没有任何特权。也许唯一的特权就是我的脸。和腐败?上帝!如果我腐败的话，我就不会是这个样子。一些丑陋的东西会落在我的身上。

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

尤其是人民的福祉一直是暴君的托辞，它还提供了进一步的好处，使暴政的仆从们有一个良好的良心。

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

怀疑对美德的危害不亚于对幸福的危害;已经腐败的人天生多疑，而变得多疑的人很快就会腐败。

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

如果人民失去他们的粗暴和反抗精神，暴政就不会在任何一周、任何一天、任何时刻降临这个国家。

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