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 has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

任何人都没有侵犯他人平等权利的自然权利,这就是法律应该约束他的一切。

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

这是贫穷的痛苦诅咒之一;没有权利慷慨。

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

官僚主义是俾格米人操纵的巨大机制。

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

财富是显而易见的,但贫穷是隐藏的。