What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

这个国家所需要的——每个国家偶尔都需要的——是一场好的、艰苦的、血腥的战争,以重振爱国主义的恶习。

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Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

传统艺术是创造而不是复兴。复兴:留给历史学家吧,他们正在回顾历史。

A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth.

少数人为生存而战比一个国家为财富而战更强大。

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

共和国的希望寄托在哪里?一个国家,一种语言,一面旗帜!

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

真正的爱国主义最痛恨自己国家的不公正。

What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

对国家不利的事对国家总是有利的。