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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

  • -- Caleb Cushing 卡莱布库欣

如果这所房子要被它的职责所吓倒，不管受到什么影响，去接受和听取人民的请愿，那么我将把我的声音送出这座国会大厦的高墙，要求纠正。

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史，保存历史记录，吸取历史教训，并把它们与自身的问题联系起来，历史也将失去其意义。

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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

商业是我们国家生活的基础，包括我们的精神生活。在主祷文中，第一项祈求是要每天有面包。没有人能空着肚子敬拜神或爱他的邻居。

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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

在我看来，拒绝接受一项请愿书，或由某种一般命令直接拒绝请愿书，与拒绝请愿权之间是无法区别的。

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I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

我认为我的歌是为了感动人们的情感。

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