Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  • -- Caleb Cushing 卡莱布库欣

我怀着这些见解,请各位先生们,像我刚才那样,冷静地回顾事实和原则,来看待这个问题。

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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

因此,有时事实是好的,有时事实是坏的,从像言论自由一样广泛和重要的原则的观点来看,重要的事情是法院以一种非常保护的方式阐明这些原则是什么。

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

只是,我们不仅应该感激那些我们可能同意其观点的人,而且应该感激那些表达了更肤浅观点的人;因为在我们面前发展思想的力量,这些人也有所贡献。

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

没有观点的存在对人类本性来说是如此痛苦,以至于大多数人宁愿草率地发表意见,也不愿接受它。

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

我的指导原则是:永远不要怀疑自己有罪。