The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  • -- Otto von Bismarck 奥托·冯·俾斯麦

今天的重大问题不是靠演讲和多数人的决定就能解决的,而是靠铁和血。

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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

总有一天,科学的头脑中会涌现出一种机器或一种力量,它的潜力是那么可怕,那么绝对可怕,甚至连敢于用酷刑和死亡来制造酷刑和死亡的战士,也会感到震惊,从而永远放弃战争。

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

大多数人失败是因为他们缺乏坚持去制定新的计划来代替那些失败的计划。

The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

唯一不遵守多数决定原则的是一个人的良心。

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。

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

我想我得把重力加到我的敌人名单上。

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

战争的悲剧在于,它利用人类最好的一面去做人类最坏的一面。