Henry

顏淵問仁。子曰：「克己復禮為仁。一日克己復禮，天下歸仁焉。為仁由己，而由人乎哉？」

Darumb, lieben herrn, loset hie, rettet hie, helfft hie, erbarmet euch der armen leut, stiche, schlage, würge hie, wer da kan, bleibst du darüber todt, wol dir, seliglichern tod kanst du nimmermehr uberkomen. Denn du stirbest im gehorsam göttlichs worts und befehls Rom. 13. und im dienst der liebe, deinen nehesten zu retten aus der helle und teuffels banden…

… Drum sol hie zuschlagen, würgen und stechen, heimlich oder öffentlich, wer da kan, und gedencken, das nichts gifftigers, schedlichers, teuffelischers seyn kan, denn ein auffrürischer mensch, gleich als man einen tollen hund todschlagen mus: schlägstu nicht, so schlegt er dich und ein gantz land mit dir.

我主张不断革命论。……革命是一个接着一个的。……我们的革命和战争一样，在夺取了一个胜利之后，就要立即提出新的任务。这样，就可以使干部和群众经常保持饱满的革命热情。

一个党，一个国家，一个民族，如果一切从本本出发，思想僵化，迷信盛行，那它就不能前进，它的生机就停止了，就要亡党亡国。

一百年来，党外靠发展人民民主、接受人民监督，内靠全面从严治党、推进自我革命，勇于坚持真理、修正错误，勇于刀刃向内、刮骨疗毒，保证了党长盛不衰、不断发展壮大。这就是毛泽东同志在延安窑洞里给出的第一个答案之后，我们党给出的第二个答案。

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.

In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them, by different modes of election and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions and their common dependence on the society will admit…

… Among the great variety of interests, parties, and sects which it [the United States] embraces, a coalition of a majority of the whole society could seldom take place on any other principles than those of justice and the general good... the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.

憲法が制定された当時は、占領軍の強力な示唆や要望によって作られたものであり、日本が主権を回復し、独立した暁には、これを日本人の手で改正し、本来の姿に戻すべきであるという考えが、私自身の中にも、また当時の政治家の間にも一般的であった...

…しかし、歳月が流れるにつれて、この憲法が国民の間に定着し、平和主義や民主主義の基本原則が日本社会の隅々にまで浸透していった。…単なる『仮小屋』であったはずの憲法が、いつの間にか国民にとっての『本宅』となってしまったのである。