The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

  • -- Elihu Root 伊莱休·鲁特

现代宪政的发展,迫使构成选民的公民个体成功地行使理性和深思熟虑的判断。

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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

如果你一旦丧失了同胞们的信任,你就永远无法重新获得他们的尊重和尊重。的确,有时候你可能会愚弄所有的人;你甚至可以一直愚弄一些人;但是你不可能一直愚弄所有的人。

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

当一位因说谎而被解职的内阁部长在每次制宪会议上都被重新任命时,同样的人却因为同样的罪行被同一位首相从同一内阁中再次解职,难怪公众对政治如此愤世嫉俗。

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

有规律的工作和娱乐时间;让每一天都变得有用和愉快,并通过充分利用时间来证明你明白时间的价值。然后,青春将是愉快的,老年将带来很少的遗憾,生活将成为一个美丽的成功。

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

我们社会的价值观正在被广告对等式的坚持所破坏:青春等于受欢迎,受欢迎等于成功,成功等于幸福。

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

大多数人直到别人表达了自己的观点后才会做出判断,然后他们又重复了一遍。

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful.

当你像渴望呼吸一样渴望成功时,你就会成功。

The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating.

智力的最高形式是观察而不评价的能力。

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

我们的主要责任是不要把口号错当成解决方案。

The most successful people are so original.

最成功的人都很有创意。