Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

每个人必须自己决定什么是对的,什么是错的,什么是爱国的,什么不是。你不能逃避,要像个男人。无论对你自己还是对你的国家,对你的定罪作出反对的决定都是一个毫无资格和可以原谅的叛徒,让我给你贴上这样的标签吧。

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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

在这个时代,在这个国家,民意决定一切。有了它,没有什么会失败;相反,没有什么能成功。塑造公众情绪的人比制定法律或宣布司法决定的人更有深度。

Patriotism ruins history.

爱国主义历史遗迹。