We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

  • -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩

我们在道义上有责任赡养老人、无助的婴儿和贫困,这远远超过满足宫廷奢侈的虚构需求。

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No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

没有人能通过翻阅账簿来判断自己是富有还是贫穷。是心灵使人富有。他富有不是因为他拥有什么,而是因为他是什么样的人。

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

惩罚是立法者手中预防犯罪的最后和最不有效的工具。

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

没有男人好到不经女人同意就支配她的地步。

Poverty is the mother of crime.

贫穷是罪恶之母。