What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

  • -- Bruce Fairchild Barton 布鲁斯·费尔奇德·巴顿

这是一个多么奇怪的现象,你可以让人们为世界的自由而死,而他们却不愿做出必要的小小的牺牲,把自己从个人的束缚中解放出来。

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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

个性是政治自由的目标。通过给予公民与秩序和他人权利相适应的行动自由和生存自由,这些制度使他成为真正的自由人。他可以用自己的方式追求自己的幸福。

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

在政治自由主义中,人的自由是不受个人、个人统治和主人的自由;保护每个人不受他人侵害,个人自由。

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

这是一件奇怪的事情……每一种信仰都承诺有一个天堂,绝对不适合任何有文明品味的人居住。

I'm a very curious person.

我是一个非常好奇的人。