War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

  • -- William McKinley 威廉·麦金利

除非每一个和平机构都失败了,否则永远不应该发动战争。

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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

这种促进和平的方式的局限性在于它是对人类文明一面的呼吁,而战争则是人类原始野蛮本性的力量的产物。

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

正如和平是一切美好的象征,战争也是一切苦难的象形文字。

Laws are useless when men are pure, unenforceable when men are corrupt.

当人们纯洁时,法律是无用的;当人们腐败时,法律是不可执行的。

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

发动战争的力量就是成功发动战争的力量。