With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

  • -- Robert Toombs 图姆斯

有了这些普通和非凡的巨大优势,人们会以为北方会心满意足,至少会尊重这些顺从而有益的兄弟们的安全与安宁;但这不是人类的本性。

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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

和平宣传的方法旨在通过辩论建立和平学说,并在一般情况下创造一种有利于和平的感觉,但这些方法似乎没有达到人类行动的源泉,也没有处理他们试图改变的行为的原因。

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

在所有的说谎者中,最傲慢的是传记作家:这些人会让我们相信,在调查了几个装满信件、日记、银行对账单和照片的盒子之后,他们可以像录音天使一样,讲述另一个人生活的全部真相。

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

我永远不知道下一个职位我要做什么。两周前我有一篇关于国土安全的文章。这是我的猪正在进行的项目之一。我们对恐怖袭击毫无准备。

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

安全不是我生命的意义。伟大的机会值得冒险。