Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

  • -- Louis D. Brandeis 布兰代斯

那些赢得我们独立的人…将自由视为目的和手段。他们认为自由是幸福的秘密,勇气是自由的秘密。

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

每个人必须自己决定什么是对的,什么是错的,什么是爱国的,什么不是。你不能逃避,要像个男人。无论对你自己还是对你的国家,对你的定罪作出反对的决定都是一个毫无资格和可以原谅的叛徒,让我给你贴上这样的标签吧。

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

我们在很大程度上是别人对我们的看法。我们的观察所受到的欢迎给了我们继续前进的勇气,或者阻碍了我们的努力。

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.(He is also a fool.)

勇气是恐惧的补充。无所畏惧的人不会有勇气。(他也是个傻瓜。)

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

自由选举的问题在于,你永远不知道谁会赢。

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

在真正的爱国主义的地图上没有指南针。

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

真正的自由,没有纪律的解放,是不可能的。