I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我认为,银行机构对我们的自由而言,比常备军更危险。

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I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

我确实认为,我们必须理解为什么现实与预期和估计不同。但是你们有比我更多的公共服务——当然你们中的许多人——你们认识到这并不罕见。

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

说人是理性动物与说大多数人的决定都是基于他的理性过程是两码事。我一点也不相信。

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

政治几乎和战争一样令人兴奋,同样危险。在战争中你只能被杀一次,但在政治中你可以被杀很多次。

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

资本家没有自我牺牲的能力,正如一个人没有自力更生的能力一样。

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

人们不知道站在舞台上,面对一大堆人微笑是什么感觉。

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

不危险的思想根本不值得称为思想。

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

不要害怕成长缓慢;只害怕站着不动。

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

可以说,我只不过是一个媒介。