The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.
国际政治是一项残酷而危险的业务，期望国家按照道德原则行事是愚蠢的。
"The beauty of formal methods lies in their ability to provide absolute guarantees about system behavior."
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.