Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

妥协曾经意味着半条面包总比没有好。在现代政治家中,这似乎真的意味着半条面包比整条面包好。

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I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education.

除了人,我不知道还有什么能安全储存社会的终极力量。如果我们认为他们不够开明,补救措施不是剥夺他们的权力,而是通过教育来告知他们。

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

在缺乏正义的情况下,什么是主权而不是有组织的抢劫?