The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

  • -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼

文明国家的首要原则是,只有在合同的约束下,权力才是合法的。

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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

因此,有时事实是好的,有时事实是坏的,从像言论自由一样广泛和重要的原则的观点来看,重要的事情是法院以一种非常保护的方式阐明这些原则是什么。

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

光,上帝的长女,是建筑中最主要的美。