国会的最高职责是恢复一直是国家财政最坚实支柱的保护性立法，以制止财政赤字。（美国总统 科金利.W.）
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，应当让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出准确的判断。倘使让我来决定，我们应当是有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应当有报纸而不要政府，我会当机立断选择后者。（美国总统 杰斐逊.T.）
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule be-gins. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish religious philowopher)
暴君死了，他统治也就结束；烈士死了，他的统治刚开始。（丹麦宗教哲学家 基尔克戈德.S.）
There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self. (William Pitt, British statesman)
在王座的后面还有比国王本人更伟大东西。（英国政治家 皮特.W.）
To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. (Junius, Unidentified letter writer)
要了解政府的政绩只需要观察民情。（国籍不明书信代理人 朱尼厄斯）
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it :the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary. (C.Colton Charles, British churchman)
欲知权力带来的痛苦，去问那些当权者；欲知权力带来的乐趣，去问那些追逐权势者：权力带来的痛苦是真实的，而权力带来的乐趣只不过是凭空想象的。（英国牧师 查尔斯.C.C.）
英语谚语之逆境篇
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)
苦难显才华，好运隐天资。（古罗马诗人 贺拉斯）
Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Annaus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)
