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民主,政策(Policy,Democracy):有些可以用在历史话题上。
It is a mistake to take too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill
人过于远虑,也是错误,命运的枷锁,一时只能应付一环 邱吉尔
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin Roosevelt, American president 实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。 美国总统 罗斯福,F.
Growth and change are the law of all life. Yesterdays answers are inadequate for today’s problems ----just as the solutions of today will not fill the needs of tomorrow.
Franklin Roosevelt, Averican president
生长与变化是一切生命的法则。昨日的答案不适用于今日的问题——正如今天的方法不 能解决明天的需求。 美国总统 罗斯福,F.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin Roosevelt, American president
我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来,但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。 美国总统罗斯福,F.
We know nothing of what will happen in future , but by the analogy of past experience.
Abraham Lincoln , American president
除了凭着对过去的经验加以类推之外,我们对今后的事一无所知。 美国总统 林肯 . A .
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Dorglas. British writer
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。 英国作家 道格拉斯.N.
Delia M. Rios, Differences-----both real and imagined ---- are invariably exaggerated in the media and in society as a whole. American writer
差别——不管是真实的还是主观想象的——总是被传媒和社会夸大。
美国作家 里奥.D.M.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. George Eliot, British novelist
人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物 的人惹出来的。 英国小说家 艾略特.G.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. John Kennedy, American president
美国同胞们,不要问国家能为你们做些什么,而要问你们能为国家做些什么。全世界的 公民们,不要问美国将为你们做些什么,而要问我们共同能为人类的自由做些什么。 美国总统 肯尼迪.J.
Assuredly, the most gifted man errs who, in dealing with humanity, depends upon his own insight and intelligence and discards the moral law of society, created by respect for the individual, and those principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, the basis of our civilization, and the essence of Christianity.
Ferdinand foch, Frcnch marshal
的确,在处理人的问题时,如果只依赖个人的见识与才智,抛弃为尊重个人而制定的社 会道德法律,抛弃作为我们文明基础和基督教要素的自由、平等、博爱的原则,那么, 即使是最有天才的人,也肯定会犯错误。 法国元帅福煦F.
It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that deeps freedom alive. In a free country there will always be coflicting ideas, and this is a source of strength.
Thomas Jefferson. American president
使自由保持活力是冲突而不是绝对的一致。在一个自由的国家里总会有各种相冲突的思 想,而这正是力量的源泉。 美国总统杰斐逊 .T.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power. Woodrow Wilson, American president 自由的历史是限制政府权力的历史。 美国总统威尔逊.W。
That freedom and order are not incompatible ;that reverence is the maid of knowledge; that free discussion is the life of truth, and of true unity in a nation.
自由与秩序并非必然互相排斥,知识高于威严,自由讨论是真理的生命,也是国家真正 团结统一的生命。
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Burke Edmund, British statesman 权力越大,滥用职权的危险就越大。 英国政治家 埃德蒙.B.
The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment,Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson, American president
人民是完全可以信赖的,应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西,然后作出正确的判断。 倘使让我来决定,我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢,还是应该有报纸而不要政府, 我会毫不犹豫选择后者。 美国总统 杰斐逊.T.
When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.
John Stuart Mill, BAritish economist
当社会需要重建时,试图墨守旧的蓝图重建它是徒劳无益的。 英国经济学家 穆勒.J.S.
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.Charles E. Wilison American president of GN
多少年业,我始终认为对国家有利的事对我们通用汽车公司也有利,反之亦然。 美国通用汽车公司总裁 威尔逊 C.E.
I don’t know who my grandfather was. I m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln, American prisident
我不知道我爷爷是什么样的人,我更关心的是,他的孙子会成为什么样的人。 美国总统 林肯.A.
Democracy means not \Theodore Parker, American theologian
民主的含义不是“我和你一样好”,而是“你和我一样好”。 美国神学家 帕克。.T.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; great man are almost always bad man… There is no worse heresy (异端,异教) than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. Lord Acton, British historian
权力导致腐败,绝对权力绝对导致腐败。伟人几乎都不是完人……再也没有比神化掌权 者更坏的异端邪说了。
英国历史学家 阿克顿爵士
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondly on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein, American scientist
人类一切和平合作的基础首先是相互信任, 其次才是法庭和警察一类的机构。 美国科学家 爱因斯坦.A.
The world makes history, and scholars write it, ——one half truly and the other half as their prejudices blur and distort it. Wendell Phillip. American leader against slavery
世界创造性历史,学者把历史写下来——一半真实,另一半却因学者的偏见而被模糊或 歪曲。
美国废奴运动领袖 菲利普斯 .W.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in.
William Shensto, British poet
人们通常会发现,法律就是这样一种的网,触犯法律的人,小的可以穿网而过,大的可 以破网而出,只有中等的才会坠入网中。 英国诗人 申斯通 W
No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. Thomas Jefferson, America president
没有哪个社会可以制订一部永远适用的宪法,甚至一条永远适用的法律。 美国总统 杰斐逊 T
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them , since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and the refore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. Mark Twain, American writer
自然法即神灵法,只是用来约束每一个个体的法律,我们必须坚定地拒绝遵守。我们应 该坚定地遵守忽视神灵法的规章制度,因为规章制度赋予我们和平、比较好的政府和稳 定,因而对我们来说,规章制度比神灵法更好,因为如果我们采用神灵法的话,他会将 我们陷入迷惑、无序和无政府状态。 美国作家 马克·吐温
一些不错的名人名言,一起分享
If you would convince others ,you seem open to conviction yourself.
---(Philip Dormer Chesterfield, British statesman) 要说服别人,先得说服自己。
---(英国政治家 切斯特菲尔德.P.D.)
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
---(william shakewspeare British dramalist) 如果送礼的人不是出于真心,再贵重的礼物也会失去它的价值。 ---(英国剧作家 莎 士比亚. )
Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it.
---(Josh Billings. American humorist) 友谊就像陶器,破了可以修补;爱情好比镜子,一旦打破就难重圆。 ---(美国幽默作家 比林斯. .J )
Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. ----(C C Schwab. USA Businessman) 品格之于人,犹如芳香之于花。---(美国实业家 施瓦布 C .C.)
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow . ---(Emerson, American thinker ) 进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。
---(美国思想家 家默生)
Let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon the dangers involved and the difficultie,and concentrate instead upon the opptunity---for there is always opportunity in crisis. ---(Seebohm Caroline, British physician)
让我们建议处在危机之中的人:不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危险和困难上,相反而要集中在机会上——因为危机中总是存在着机会。
---(英国医生 卡罗琳 S)
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
---(Euripides , ancient Creek dramatist.)
我们懂得善,我们理解善,但是我们无法实现善。人的勇气就是坚信自己的希望能够实现,并为之进行不屈不挠的努力。
---(法国作家 赖奇特 J. P)