09/14 名人論政治2

  • 一個政客必須具備預言明天、下週、下個月、明年會發生之事的能力,也有能力在那之後解釋為何他預言的沒發生。(邱吉爾)
    A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. (Winston Churchill)
  • 我們這部憲法,是為著一群有道德、有信仰的百姓而訂立的;若不是這樣一群百姓,這部憲法絕不夠用。(約翰.亞當斯,美國第二任總統)
    Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (John Adams)
  • 憲法不是讓政府用來限制百姓的工具,乃是百姓用來限制政府的工具,以免政府用它來轄制百姓的生命與利益。
    The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. (Patrick Henry,美國開國元老)
  • 論到良心時,多數人贊同的法律並非真理。(甘地)
    In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. (Mohandas Gandhi)
  • 最好的法律也難以改進我們的物質條件,但差勁的法律肯定會摧毀之。(老羅斯福總統)
    It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. (Theodore Roosevelt)

 

 

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