英汉智慧语录 English and Chinese Brainy Quotes
托马斯·潘恩（Thomas Paine, 1737 – 1809 ）：英裔美国思想家、作家、政治活动家、理论家、革命家、激进民主主义者。
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
没有一个由绝对权力统治的国家可以被称为自由国家; 无论它是绝对的王权还是绝对的立法权，这都无关紧要，因为对人民来说后果都是一样的。
Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
我们最大的敌人，那些我们必须经常对抗的敌人，就在我们的内部。
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
太容易得到的东西，我们反而不珍惜。
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
声誉是男人和女人对我们的评价; 品格是上帝和天使对我们的熟习与了解。
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
在我看来，所有国家的教会机构，无论是犹太教会、基督教教会还是土耳其教会，都不过是人类的发明，都是为了恐吓和奴役人类，垄断权力和利润而设立的。
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
一个对任何人都不负责的人不应该被任何人信任。
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.最伟大的暴政总是以最崇高的事业的名义永存。
