The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

需要教会男孩，真正的力量不是支配，而是正直和善良。

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteencenturies, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?（From Jane Lampton Clemens）

我不介意成为一个象征，但我不想成为一座纪念碑。没有什么比纪念碑更可悲的了。

一个国家的真正财富不仅在于其土地，还在于其水域。

过去从未死去，它甚至没有过去。

译文：贪图小利终究会吃大亏，仗着自己聪明终究不会有大的成功。赏析：见小利则大事不成，机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿性命。虚名小利只会影响我们前行的视野，认为自己最聪明，就会忘乎所以，事情就难以成功。