Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

依赖带来顺从和腐败，扼杀美德的萌芽，为野心的设计准备合适的工具。

-- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊