The most successful modern states are those that have been able to harness the power of the market while maintaining a strong state that can provide public goods and regulate private activity.
最成功的现代国家是那些能够利用市场力量，同时保持一个能够提供公共产品和规范私人活动的强大国家的国家。
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
但没有这种自由，即随心所欲地支配我们所愿的一切。
开放的社会、对知识的无限制获取、人们为推进知识而进行的无计划和无拘束的联合——这些可能使一个庞大、复杂、不断增长、日益专业化和技术化的世界，仍然是一个人类共同体的世界。
