You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

  • -- Brian Mulroney 布莱恩·马尔罗尼

你必须把你的政治资本花在国家的伟大事业上。

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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

对一个领导者真正的考验是他的追随者是否会出于自己的意志坚持他的事业,忍受最艰难的困苦而不是被迫这样做,并在最危险的时刻保持坚定。

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

许多以前不为人知的原因,现在正以一种综合的力量起作用,以钝化思维的辨别能力,并使之不适合所有自愿的努力,以把它减少到近乎野蛮的麻木状态。

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

我父亲可能认为世界的首都在他当时所处的任何地方。不可能是别的地方。在那里,他和他的妻子在他们自己的家里,对他们来说,那就是世界的首都。

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

正如一个谨慎的商人避免把他所有的资本都投资在一个公司里一样,智慧可能也会告诫我们不要只从一个季度中期待所有的幸福。