And by the way, we, the people of progress, are rooted in those principles of the Declaration of Independence" which are written down essentially as creeds "And, oh and by the way, we have a written Constitution we actually wrote it down, we have a Bill of Rights where we declare these things on paper, unlike the Brits."

顺便说一下,我们,作为进步的人类,是独立宣言的主旨",它被写成文字,作为信条,"顺便再说一下,我们还有一部成文大宪章,我们把它写下来,我们有《人权法案》,一切白纸黑字申明清楚,不像那些英国佬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The inevitable conclusion that I reach and I believe any sensible reader of Aristotle would reach is that Aristotle in fact discovered the American Constitution 1 500 or 2 000 years before it was written.

但会得到结论,且我相信,任何敏感的亚里士多德读者都会得到的结论是,亚里士多德，事实上,早在美国宪法写就之前的,1，500，或，2，000，年即已创建。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选