The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

  • -- Mark Skousen 马克·史库森

说服战胜武力是文明社会的标志。

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Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

然而,总的来说,我所走过的这片土地不太可能成为文明人常去的地方,或者只会成为一个孤立的地方,作为与一个更富饶的国家连接的纽带;如果这样一个国家存在于西部。

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

阅读有关同一事件的新闻报道在全世界引起的同时的反应,可以说,为整个文明人类创造了共同的精神脉搏。

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

任何国家都不可能同时在全球每一地区的每时每刻明智地采取行动。

Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.

憎恨你的敌人,会耗尽你的能量。

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

胜利而无光荣,征服而无危险。

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

没有危险就征服,没有荣耀就胜利。