A man may build himself a throne of bayonets， but he cannot sit on it.
——William Ralph Inge， British churchman
一个人可以为自己支撑起一座刺刀宝座，但是他却无法坐上去。
——英国牧师W. R.英格
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors， the men it remembers.
——John F.Kennedy， American president
一个民族不仅通过它所造就的人，也通过它给予荣誉的人和它所铭记的人展示自己。
——美国总统J. F.肯尼迪
A politician is a man who understands government， and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician whos been dead ten or fifteen years.
——H.S.Truman， American president
政客是政府的人，管理政府需要政客，政治家是已死去十至十五年的政客。
——美国总统H. S.杜鲁门
A powerful idea commissions some of its strength to him who challenges it.
——Marcle Proust， French writer
权威的思想将它的某些力量赋予敢于向它挑战的人。
——法国作家M.普鲁斯特
A state which dwarfs its men， in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
——John Stuart Mill， British economist
一个政府压制它的人民，即使他们成为自己手中的驯服工具——即便是为了正当的目的——
它也会发现，靠受压制的人是不可能真正成就什么大事的。
——英国经济学家J. S.穆勒
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
——George Bernard Shaw， British dramatist
所有伟大的真理开始都离经叛道。
——英国剧作家G.萧伯纳
All is not lost that is in danger.
——Anonymous
多难兴邦。
——无名氏
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
——James Reston， American editor
一切政治都是建筑在绝大多数的人冷漠的基础上的。
——美国编辑J.赖斯顿
Ambition， in a private man a vice， is in a prince， a virtue.
——Philip Massinger， British dramatist
野心，在平民身上是罪孽，在帝王身上却是美德。
——英国剧作家P.马辛格
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
——George Bernard Shaw， British dramatist
暗杀是检查制度的极端形式。
——英国剧作家G.萧伯纳
Democracy means not “I am as good as you are ” but “you are as good as I am.”
——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T.帕克
Destiny： A tyrants authority for crime， and a fools excuse for failure.
——Ambrose Bierce， American writer
命运：暴君施虐的权利，傻瓜失败的借口。
——美国作家A.比尔斯
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state； are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force， that thoughts rule the world.
——Jimmy Ellis， American boxer
伟人是一国的路标与界石；是那些认识到精神力量大于任何物质力量，用思想统治世界的人。
——美国拳击运动员J.埃利斯
I will not accept if nominated， and will serve if selected.
——William Sherman， American general
如果被任命，我不愿接受， 但是如果被选上，将效力。
——美国将军W.舍曼
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs， not from power or riches， grandeur of glory， but from conviction of notational innocence， information， and benevolence.
——John Adams， American president
如果说民族自豪感历来无可非议和情有可原，那么，这种自豪感必定不是来自权势和财富，
不是来自豪华和荣耀，而是来自坚信民族的纯真、见识和仁爱。
——美国总统J.亚当斯
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty， or to seek power overothers and to lose power over a mans self.
——Francis Bacon， British philosopher
为追求权力而失去自由，为追求统治别人的权力而失去自身的权力，这是一种不可思议的欲望。
——英国哲学家F.培根
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
——Benjamin Disraeli， British statesman
没有一个难以对付的反对党，任何政府都不能长期稳定。
——英国政治家B.狄斯雷利
Politics， as a practice， whatever its professions， has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
——Adams Henry， American historian
政治作为一种实践，不管它如何表白，始终是有条不紊的煽动仇恨的组织。
——美国历史学家A.亨利
Politics is usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
——Brittain Vera， American writer
政治通常是人类不成熟的表现行为。
——美国作家B.薇拉
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
——Robert Louis Stevenson， British novelist
也许从事政治是人们认为唯一不必作任何准备就能从事的职业。
——英国小说家R. L.斯蒂文森
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
——Herry A. Kissinger， American diplomat
权力是最猛烈的催欲剂。
——美国外交家H. A.基辛格