"The lives of our soldiers are being put on the line because of our own security and that is the only reason that a government in any country would put our soldiers lives in danger."

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Making use of only our own reasoning, as opposed to whatever answers we might be given by divine revealed authority.

只用你自己的推测，与所有答案截然相反,我们可能被授予神圣的权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.

这再一次印证了典型共和派的的宗旨,根据于我们是完全的人，我们要变成完全的人，当我们被牵扯到政治生活中，我们用我们自己制造的法律来统治自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选