It had fought gamely with floods and droughts, with cholera and panics, with desperadoes and with land thieves. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
One suspects at times that our national cult of optimism is no real feeling that the world is good, but a fear that pessimism will produce panics. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.