The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.

战争即和平。自由即奴役。无知即力量。

States are inherently aggressive and expansionist because they exist in an anarchic international system where there is no higher authority to keep them in check.

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

我们都会完成。也许我们中没有一个人真正理解我们所经历的一切，或者觉得我们有足够的时间。

We are all bit-part actors in each other's lives.

对待侮辱最好的回应就是「你可能是对的」。而事实经常确是如此。

在数学中，提出问题的艺术必须比解决问题更有价值。