Although we usually call reward and punishment the two hinges upon which all government turns, yet I could never observe this maxim to be put in practice by any nation except that of Lilliput.

• 虽然我们把赏与罚认为是一切政府动作的两个枢纽，但除了在利立浦特之外，我还没见过有任何一个国家能真正实行这一原则。