It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

  • -- John Philpot Curran 约翰·菲尔波特·柯伦

懒汉的共同命运是看到他们的权利成为积极分子的牺牲品。上帝赋予人自由的条件是永远保持警惕;如果他打破了这一条件,奴役就是他犯罪的结果,也是对他罪行的惩罚。

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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

剧院最适合说:“瞧!这些东西。然而,大多数剧作家都用它来表达:“这种道德真理可以从观看这种行为中学到。”

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

自由是脆弱的,必须得到保护。牺牲它,即使是暂时的措施,也是背叛它。

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

没有自由的幸福,或没有幸福的自由。没有第三种选择。

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world

所以你们要行动,使你们的行为准则,可以安全地成为全世界的法律