I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
我所做的是我所知道最好的,也是我能做的最好的方式;并且我知道我要一直持续至最后。如果最终给我所有的权利,无论什么对我来说都没有意义。如果最终是我错了,十个天使为我祈祷我是对的,没有带来多大的区别。
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也许其中部分的译义有点不一样。当然,仁者见仁,智者见智。
见《林肯传》英文版