Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

  • -- William F. Buckley, Jr. 小威廉·F·巴克利

据说,自由主义者对别人的钱很慷慨,除非涉及到国家存亡的问题,他们更愿意对别人的自由和安全慷慨。

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The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

艺术界通常由自由主义者主导,因为如果你主要关注绘画或雕塑,你就没有时间去研究世界是如何运作的。如果你不懂经济、战略、历史和政治,那么你自然会成为一个自由主义者。

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

所有能够理解这一事实的物种在生存斗争中都比那些只依靠自身力量的物种做得更好:成群狩猎的狼比单独狩猎的狮子有更大的生存机会。

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

如果联合国要生存下去,代表它的国家必须支持它;主张它的人必须服从它;相信它的人必须为之奋斗。

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

我们这个时代最普遍的政治观点之一,是自由主义者同样富有同情心,而保守派则不那么关心他人。

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

一个人永远不应该穿上他最好的裤子当他出去为自由和真理而战。

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

没有人是自由的,即使是鸟也被拴在天空上。