The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  • -- Louis D. Brandeis 布兰代斯

对自由的最大危险潜伏在热情的人的暗中侵犯之中,他们本意是好的,但并不了解。

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Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

时刻记住你自己已经见证了多少变化。宇宙是变化的,生命是理解的。

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

最终决定自由是否存在的不是自由的事实,而是自由的行使方式。

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

热情赋予无形的生命;以及对那些对我们在这个世界上的舒适没有直接影响的事物的兴趣。

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

那些为了安全而放弃自由的人将不会得到自由,他们也不配得到自由。

The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further.

对一件事最好的理解是当你不能再减少它的时候。

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

没有什么比热情更伟大的了。