said the Justice. "Roll it up," the man ordered, "and stick it in the end of this here gun barrel.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

"All politics grows out of the barrel of a gun," as a famous twentieth-century Machiavellian once put it.

所有的政治都是活在枪杆子下“,这是二十世纪一位著名,马奇亚维利派学者的解译。

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"But,the point of the international community is that those are not to be dealt with at the end of the barrel of a gun, but,instead,through legal proceedings."

VOA: standard.2009.07.03