第二篇：法律英语名言

法律英语名言

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a sage punishes not because a crime has been committed， but rather to prevent its being committed;because the past cannot be revoked， but the future is being forestalled.

(Lat. nemoprudenspunitquiapeccatumest，sed ne peccetur;reuocarienimpraeterita non possunt，futuraprohibentur)

...Plato

智者非因犯罪已然发生才去惩罚，实乃为了防止犯罪而施刑责；其原因在于，过去无法逆转，而未来则可以预防。

——柏拉图

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

...Samuel Johnson

法律是人类为公众利益所作实践中探索出的人类智慧最终结晶。 ——塞缪尔·约翰逊

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

...Earl Warren

在文明的生活中，法律漂浮在道德的海洋上。

——厄尔·沃伦

The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

...John Mortimer

法律看起来就象某种迷宫委托人要想通过，肯定需要他人引导其通过种种暗礁。

——约翰·莫蒂默

The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove.

[Lat., Datveniamcorvis, vexatcensuracolumbas.]

...Juvenal

裁决认定掠夺者无罪，而给主平的人判刑。

——尤维纳利斯

The law often allows what honor forbids.

[Fr., La loipermetsouventceque defend l'honneur.]

...Bernard Joseph Saurin

法律允许的而道义上常常禁止。

——伯纳德·约瑟·莎伦

Unnecessary laws are but traps for money.

...Hobbes

无用的法律不过是捞钱的陷阱。

——霍布斯

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

...Julius Caesar

武力与法律不能同时兴盛。

——尤利乌斯·凯撒

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

[Lat., Hominem improbum non accusaritutiusest quam absolvi.] ...Titus Livy

不指控坏人较宣告他无罪更稳妥。

——泰特斯·李维

The prince is not above the laws, but the laws above the prince.

[Lat., Non estpriceps super leges, sedleges supra principem.] ...Pliny the Younger

不是君主高于法律，而是法律高于君主。

——小普林尼

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

[Lat., Jus summumsaepe summa estmalitia.]

...Terence

最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。

——泰伦斯

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

[Lat., Jus summumsaepe summa estmalitia.]

...Terence

最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。

——泰伦斯

The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.

[Lat., Judexdamnatur cum nocensabsolvitur.]

...PubliliusSyrus

如果犯罪之人被判无罪，法官应该判刑。

——普布里利亚斯·西拉斯

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

[Lat., Qui statuitaliquid, parte inauditaaltera, Aequum licet statuerit, haudaequusfuerit.]

...Lucius Annaeus Seneca

偏听一方而对案件作出判决不可能公正，虽然他自认为很公正。 ——卢西乌斯·阿纽斯·塞内加

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.

...Edmund Burke

我不知道如何起草控告所有人的方法。

——埃德蒙·伯克

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

...Julius Caesar

武力与法律不能同时兴盛。

——尤利乌斯·凯撒

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported

by popular opinion.

...Carrie Chapman Catt

由民众意见支持的不成文习惯法比成文法更具约束力。

——卡丽·查普曼·凯特

Law is mind without reason.

...Aristotle

法律是无由的理念。

——亚里斯多德

Necessity has no law.

...William Langland

“必要”不受制于法。

——威廉·朗格兰

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

...Sir John Powell

让我们来搜寻本案的理由，因为没有理由不成其为法律。

——约翰·鲍威尔爵士

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

...Ulysses S. Grant

我知道取缔有害或讨厌的法律最有效的方法是严厉地去执行它。 ——尤利塞斯·S·格兰特

At least in the law of the jungle, you've survival of the fittest. In Congress, you've just got survival.

...Robert W. Packwood

至少在法律丛林中，适者生存。在国会中，你得生存。

——罗伯特·W·帕克伍德

He found law dear and left it cheap.

...Ulysses S. Grant

他对法律一见钟情，随即又见异思迁。

——尤利西斯·辛·格兰特

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

...Sophocles

公平与不公平仅一线之隔。

——萨福克里斯

The law exists to protect us all, whether we are union members, union leaders, employers or merely long-suffering members of the public. We cannot do without it. But the law is not a one-way street. Part goes our way, part goes against us. We have either to accept it all or else to optbor anarchy.

...Sir John Donaldson

法律保护我们所有人，不管你是工会成员、工会领导人、职员还是长期受苦的公众成员。没有法律我们一事无成。但是法律不是一条单行道，有些是我们的方向，而有些与我们反向。我们要么全部接受，要么选择无政府状态。

——约翰·唐纳森爵士

There is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating change in a State's constitution. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who could prosper under the new.

Their support is lukewarm partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the existing law on their side, and partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting n

没有比开始改革一个国家的宪法在安排上更困难，在成功方面更不确定，在实施方面更危险。改革者要得罪所有在旧规则下获益的人；而只是冷淡的支持者是那些从即将实施的新规则下获益的人。

这些人不热心支持一方面是因为出于对那些站在现行法律一边的敌手的畏惧；另一方面因为通常不轻信新事物，除非它们已经过实践检验。结果，改革随时遭反对变革者剧烈地攻击，而其他支持者又只是冷淡的。因此，改革者及友人都濒临灭绝。

——马基雅弗利

The question is, not what may be supposed to have been intended, but what has been said.

...Lord Halsbury

问题不是推定的意图，而是曾经说过什么。

——赫斯布里勋爵

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

...Cornelius Tacitus

经验告诉我们绝妙的法律及正确的先例来源于他人的犯罪基础上的。 ——科尼利厄斯·塔西佗

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors."

...Mark Duffy

人们说我与法律有过冲突，其实是不准确的。我只是同那些过分热心的检举人有过冲突。

——马克·达菲

?There can be no really pervasive system of oppression . . . without the consent of the oppressed.

...Florynce R. Kennedy)

没有被压迫者的同意，就不会有真正的压迫制度。

——弗洛里恩斯·R·肯尼迪

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

...Emma Goldman

权力最有力的保障是一致性；最小的分歧就是最大的犯罪。

——爱玛·戈德曼

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. ...John Christian Bovee

法律最重要的是法律随着时代不断改革发展。

——John Christian Bove

There are so many lawyers with their hands in the till there isn't room for money.

...Howard Engel

抽屉内到处都是律师的手，以致没有放钱的空间。

——霍华德·恩格

It is often thought that the police represent the law. It would be more accurate to say that they represent the force behind the law.

...J. Ricker and J. Saywell

经常有人认为警察代表法律。更准确来讲，他们代表法律背后的强制力。 ——J. Ricker和J. Saywell

Senility has it’s privileges.

...Edward Farrer

老人应享有特别待遇。

——爱德华·法拉

Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give. ...Anthony Norvell

种下一粒麦种你可以收获一品脱；种下一品脱你可以蒲式尔。通常法律回报你的总比你给予的多。

——安东尼·诺维尔

Laws were made to be broken.

...Christopher North

制定法律用于被人破坏。

——克里斯托弗·诺斯

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers. ...Ambrose Bierce

杀人：名词，一个人被另一个人杀死。一般分为四种情况：重罪的、可免除的、有理由的及值得称颂的，但是对于被杀者没有任何区别。而这种分级只对于律师有用。

——安布罗斯·比尔斯

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.

...Coke

法律的生命是推理，不仅如此，而且普通法本身除了推理外别无他物。 ——科克

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

...Abraham Lincoln

阻止诉讼。随时说服你的邻居采取折衷措施去避免诉讼，律师作为调节人，不但有很好的机会成为一个好人，而且总是有许多生意上门。

——亚伯拉罕·林肯

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

...Henry Kissinger

违法一瞬间即可完成，但违宪则需更长一点时间。

——亨利·基辛格

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. ...Edson Haines

每一个民事权利必须有对应的民事义务。

——Edson Haines

We are creating the kind of society where the criminal is out of jail before his victim is out of hospital

...Richard J. Needham

我们正在建设一种受害者尚未出院而罪犯却已出狱的社会。

——理查德·J·尼达姆

The law gives a dog more rights than the person he bites

... J. C. McRuer

法律给予狗的权利比被它咬的人多。

——J. C. McRuer

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

...Martin Luther King

事实上，法律不能让一个人爱上我，但可以阻止他对我动私刑。我认为这是最重要的。

——马丁·路德·金

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

...Jane Bryant Quinn

律师就像收费桥的工作人员，任何搜寻公平的人都必须由此经过。 ——简·布莱恩特·奎因

There are not enough jails, not enough policeman, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

...Hubert Humphrey

就是再多的监狱、再多的警察及法庭也无法实施民众不支持的法律。 ——休伯特·汉弗莱

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

...Elbert Hubbard

律师是我们聘来用以应付其他律师的。

——埃尔伯特·哈伯德

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ...Earl Warren

法律的本质就是保持正义不灭。

——沃伦伯爵

A lawyer cannot be made honest by an act of the Legislature. You've got to work on his conscience, and his lack of conscience is what made him a lawyer.

...Will Rogers

立法机关的法令不可能使律师变得诚实。你必须凭良心作事，而正是缺乏

良心才使他成为律师。

——威廉·罗杰斯

A law-suit is like an ill-managed dispute, in which the first object is soon out of sight, and the parties end upon a matter wholly foreign to that on which they began.

...Edmund Burke

诉讼就象失控的争斗，开始争夺的目标很快淡出视野，而双方结束时的目标已与之毫无关联。

——埃德蒙·伯克

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

...Pythagorus

一旦法律成为人们的必需品，自由就不再适合他们。

——毕达哥拉斯

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

...Pythagorus

人们一旦必需法律时，就意味着不再需要自由。

——皮西亚斯

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. ...Philip Crosby

你必须带领人民慢慢地向他们认为正确的方向发展。

——菲力普·克罗斯比

What power has law where only money rules.

...Gaius Petronius

金钱统治的地方权力就是法律。

——盖厄斯· 佩特罗尼乌斯

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

...Albert Einstein

我们的防御不在于我们的军备，不在于科技，也不在于地下活动，而就是法律和秩序。

——阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes it's partner in crime. ...Mignon McLaughlin

头脑永远不会支配心灵，只是在犯罪时才会成为它的伙伴。

——Mignon McLaughlin

Good laws have their origins in bad morals.

...AmbrosiusMacrobius

好的法律来源于道德的沦丧。

——安波罗休·玛克罗比乌斯

The body of the law is no less incumbered with superfluous members, that are like Virgil's army, which he tells us was so crowded, many of them had not room to use their weapons.

...Joseph Addison

法律的躯体因为过量的成员而妨碍其正常运作，就如维吉尔的军队，他告诉我们，他们因为拥挤而没有空间使用武器。

——约瑟夫·阿狄森

The laws do not undertake to punish anything other than overt acts. ...Charles de Secondat

法律除了公然的犯罪行为外不会同意惩办任何事情。

——Charles de Secondat

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

...Chaim Weizmann

法律必须有一个道德基础,所以需要一个内部强制力让每一个公民去遵守。 ——杰姆·魏茨曼

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

...William Shakespeare

怜悯是法律的美德，只有暴君残酷地使用它。

——威廉·莎士比亚

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. ...Lisa Alther

知道是对的但不去做，不是缺乏勇气就是丧失原则。

——Lisa Alther

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. ...Lisa Alther

知道是对的但不去做，不是缺乏勇气就是丧失原则。

——Lisa Alther

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. ...Ralph Waldo Emerson

真理是生命的至高点，正义是其实践者。

——拉尔夫·沃尔朵·爱默生

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

...Voltaire

在一个国家里，众多的法律就如众多的医生，虚弱和疾病的标志。 ——伏尔泰

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

...Clarence Seward Darrow

无论法庭内外都没有公正这类东西存在。

——克拉伦斯·苏厄德·达罗

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

...Lyndon Baines Johnson

有组织犯罪不亚于组织反社会的游击战争.

——林顿·贝恩斯·约翰逊

Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.

-- Ambrose

祈祷：请求废除世界法则以利于个别无疑不足道的请求者。

——安布罗斯

Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.

...John Cogley Commonweal

宽容意味着对别人的尊重，不是因为他的对错，而是仅仅因为他是一个人。 ——John Cogley Commonweal

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

...Albert Einstein

人们之间的每种和平协作首先是建立在相互信任的基础之上，其次才是公共机构比如法庭、警署。

——阿尔贝特·爱因斯坦

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. ...Bismarck

法律如香肠，大家最好不要看它的制作过程。

——陴斯麦

Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving.

...Bill McIntire

禁止枪支以减少暴力犯罪就如禁止汽车以减少酒后驾驶一样可笑。

——Bill McIntire

To live outside the law you must be honest.

...Bob Dylan

生活在法律范围之外，你必须诚实。

——鲍勃·迪伦

As with forms of government, so with forms of law; it is the national character which decides.

...Herbert Spencer

有什么样的政府就有什么样的法律；这是由国家的性质决定的。 ——赫伯特·斯宾塞

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

...Polish Proverb

即使是坏了的钟一天也能对两次。

——波兰谚语

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

...Cicero

最严苛的法律经常导致最严重的冤屈.

——西塞罗

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

...Cicero

最严苛的法律经常导致最严重的冤屈.

——西塞罗

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

...Glaser and Way

不成文法的问题是你不知到哪去取消它。

——Glaser and Way

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

...Cicero

人民的幸福是法律的根本。

——西塞罗

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

...Benjamin Disraeli

当人类思想纯洁时，法律显得无用；当人类思想腐败时，法律则不被遵守。 ——本杰明· 迪斯雷利

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

...Aristotle

即使法律已经写下，它们也不必须保持一成不变。

——亚里斯多德

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

...Howard Mumford Jones

迫害是社会的第一部法，因为抑止批评问题比迎合批评要容易。 ——霍华德·芒福德·琼斯

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility leads to crime.

...Talleyrand

过于关注易产生不快；过于漠视易导致犯罪。

——塔列朗

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

...Albert Camus

许多人犯罪仅仅是因为不能忍受不公正（的待遇）。

——阿尔贝特·卡缪

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

...Martin Luther King

无论何处的不公平都是对公平的威胁。

——马丁·路德·金

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

...Erich Fromm

成功的革命者是政治家，而失败的则为罪犯。

——艾里克·弗洛姆

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

...Henry Louis Mencken

时间是伟大的法律判定者，即使在道德领域。

——亨利·路易斯·孟肯

War does not determine who is right -- only who is left.

...Bertrand Russel

战争不能决定谁是正确的，只能决定谁离去。

——伯特兰·罗素

There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.

...Patrick Stewart

只要有专制的规章就没有公平可言。

——帕特里克·斯图尔特

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice." ...Fran?oisDuc de la Rochefoucauld

对大多数人来说，对公平的热爱只仅仅因为对遭受不公平的恐惧。 ——佛朗克斯·德·拉·罗希夫格

Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained. ...James Abram Garfield

全民教育的重要性仅次于自由与公平，没有它自由与公平就得不到永久地维持。

——詹姆斯·亚伯拉罕·加菲尔德

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

...Honoré de Balzac

每个巨额财富背后都包含着犯罪。

——奥诺德· 巴尔扎克

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

...Robert Green Ingersoll

公正的胜利才是唯一的和平。

——罗伯特·格林·英格索尔

Without justice courage is weak.

...Benjamin Franklin

缺乏公平的勇气是虚弱的。

——本杰明·富兰克林

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

...William J. H. Boetcker

你可以保持你的自尊，但是以正确的行为激怒他人比暂时用错误的行为取悦他人可取。

——William J. H. Boetcker

Comedy is allied to justice.

...Aristophenes

喜剧与司法是同类的。

——阿里斯多芬尼士

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

...John Fitzgerald Kennedy

变革是法律的生命。那些只关注过去或现在的人必然会错过将来。 ——约翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

...Joseph Joubert

让我们维护正义,那么我们将会得到更多的自由.

——约瑟夫·儒贝尔

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

...Gary Wills

只有战胜者才有权判定什么是战争犯罪。

——加里·维尔

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

...Thomas Fuller

呆板的公平其实是最大的不公平。

——托马斯·福勒

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

...Henry Martyn Robert

如果没有法律，但每个人都作着自认为对的事情，那他们至少享受着真正的自由。

——亨利·马丁· 罗伯特

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.

...German Proverb

一份不公平的合同也好过一场冗长的官司。

——德国谚语

The law is in another world; but it thinks it's the whole world.

...John Mortimer

法律存在于另一个世界，但它自认为它是整个世界。

——约翰·莫蒂默

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

...Plato

制造冤屈的人比遭受冤屈的人更可怜。

——柏拉图

Laws describe constraint. Their purpose is to control, not to create. ...Tom Robbins

法律记述着约束。他们的目标是控制而不是创造。

——汤姆·罗宾斯

Australia: An amalgam of States and territories with independent governments united by mutual resentment.

...Anon

澳大利亚：由互相憎恨的拥有独立政府的州及地域组成的结合体。 ——Anon

You never, but never, go to litigation if there is another way out ... Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

...Wilbur Smith

如果有另外的出路的话，你千万不要提起诉讼……提起诉讼只会养肥律师。 ——威尔伯·史密斯

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of this world can be cured by legislation.

...Thomas B. Reed

世界上最严重的错觉之一就是希望立法可以拯救世间的罪恶。

——托马斯·B·里德

When Mr Justice was a counsellor, he would never take less than a guinea for doing anything, nor less than half a one for doing nothing. He durst not if he would; among lawyers, moderation would be infamy. ...Jeremy Bentham

如果法官作律师，他不会因为多给钱而多作事；也不会因为少给而少作。对其而言是两难，因为对于一般律师，立场不明是败笔。

——杰里米·边沁

I am ashamed the law is such an ass.

...George Chapman

我以法律如此愚蠢为耻。

——乔治·查普曼

The law is of much interest to the layman as it is to the lawyer.

...Lord Balfour

对法律而言，外行比律师能获更多的利益。

——巴尔弗爵士

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5, and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

...Benjamin H. Brewster

一个律师开始其职业生涯付出500元只能得到5元的回报；而结束时5元能值500元。

——本杰明·H·布鲁斯特

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.

...Simon Hoggart

英国律师愿意把自己以为是被称为法律的神秘实体的一部分；而美国律师愿意（拥有）一个游泳池、两栋别墅。

——西蒙·霍加特

A man without money, needs no more fear a crowd of lawyers, than a crowd of pickpockets.

...William Wycherley

一个穷光蛋不用害怕律师也不用害怕扒手。

——威廉·威彻利

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same. ...Jawaharlal Nehru

请记住法律与观念并不总是一致的。

——贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁

There are limits to permissible misrepresentation, even at the hands of a lawyer.

...John Maynard Keynes

律师的手中恰当地把握着虚假陈述在法律允许范围内的限度。 ——约翰·梅纳尔·凯恩斯

I should regret to find that the law was powerless to enforce the most elementary principles of commercial morality.

...Lord Herschell

我应该为发现法律无力保护商业道德的基本原则而遗憾。

——荷斯彻尔爵士

Lawyers cannot remain empty of head and pure of heart.... A lawyer has a duty to investigate or take some steps to inform himself in a situation where he believes that there is client perjury.

...Barry S. Alberts

律师不能让脑袋与心灵处于空白状态……一个律师如果认为他的客户在作伪证，他有主义务去调查或采取一些措施去让自己确认它。

——巴里·S·艾尔伯斯

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

...George Washington

我希望永远看到美国是最公正、公平的国家。

——乔治·华盛顿

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.

...Ralph Waldo Emerson

对一个公平意味着对另一个人不公平；一个人的美丽意味着另一个人的丑陋；一个人的睿智意味着另一个人的愚昧。

——拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ...The Declaration of Independence

我们认为下述真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等，造物主赋予了他们若干不可让渡的权利，其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。 ——独立宣言

Law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still.

...Pound

法律应该是稳定的，但不能停止不前。

——庞德

Law is the reason free from passion.

...Aristotle

法律是一种远离激情的理智。

——亚里斯多德

Lawyer's houses are built on the heads of fools.

...George Herbert

律师的房子建在傻子的头上。

——乔治·赫伯特

I know you lawyers can, with ease,

Twist words and meanings as you please;

That language, by your skill made pliant,

Will bend to favourev'ry client.

...John Gay

我知你们律师可以毫不费力地根据自己的喜好扭曲词汇和意义；通过技巧使语言顺从于每一个顾客的喜好。

——约翰·盖伊

The law is only a memorandum.

...Ralph Waldo Emerson

法律仅仅是一个备忘录。

——拉尔夫·沃尔朵·爱默生

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

...Thomas Fuller

傻子及固执的人使律师变得富有。

——托马斯·福勒

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

...Thomas Hobbes

不必要的法律不是好法，而是金钱的陷阱。

——托马斯·霍布斯

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art. ...Sir Frederick Pollock

法律实践是一门很独特的艺术。

——弗雷德里克·波洛克爵士

The lawyer's is a manifold art.

...Sir Frederick Pollock

律师是一门多方面的艺术。

——弗雷德里克·波洛克爵士

That ignorant, blundering, blind thing, the law. ...Elbert Hubbard

法律，无知、笨拙及盲目的事物。

——埃尔伯特· 哈伯德

Lawyers Can Seriously Damage Your Health. ...Michael Joseph

律师能严重损害您的健康。

——迈克尔·约瑟夫

A man's house is his castle.

...Sir Edward Coke

一个人的房子就是他的城堡。

——爱德华·科克爵士

An indifferent agreement, is better than carrying a cause at law. ...Thomas Fuller

一个无关紧要的协议好过卷入法律纠纷。

——托马斯·福勒

Every lawyer should be a conciliator.

...Elbert Hubbard

每一个律师应该是一个调和人。

——埃尔伯特·哈伯德

Words are the lawyers tools of trade.

...Lord Denning

言语是律师从业的工具。

——丹宁勋爵

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;

and where the law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

...Benjamin Franklin

饥饿的地方通常不关心法律；同时，法律不被关心的地方通常是饥饿的地方。

——本杰明·富兰克林

Lawyers are brought up with an exaggerated reverence for their system and, apart from a few, they don't see what's wrong with it.

...Tom Sargeant

律师在培养过程中自己的体系有着夸张的敬畏，除了少数人以外，他们发现不了体系的问题所在。

——汤姆·沙吉恩

Lawyers generally prefer not to rush things.

...Justice Kirby

律师通常不喜欢匆忙行事。

——柯尔比法官

That which is law to-day is none to-morrow.

...Robert Burton

今天的法律，明天什么也不是。

——罗伯特·伯顿

Fee: A contingency fee is an arrangement in which if you lose, your lawyer gets nothing - and if you win you get nothing.

...George M.Palmer

费用：风险代理律师费是这样安排的：如果你输了官司，你的律师将一无所获；而如果你赢了，你将一无所获。

——乔治·M·帕尔默

Credit: A system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay.

...Charles Dickens

信用：一个不能支付的人让另一个不能支付的人保证他能支付的体系。 ——查尔斯·狄更斯

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

...Edmund Burke

法律像房子一样，彼此相依。

——埃德蒙·伯克

Law is a bottomless pit, it is a cormorant, a harpy, that devours everything.

...John Arbuthbit

法律是个无底洞，它贪得无厌、掠夺成性，吞食所有的东西。 ——约翰·阿布斯比特

Seventy per cent of the members of all our law-making bodies are lawyers. Very naturally, lawyers making laws favour laws

that make lawyers a necessity.

...Elbert Hubbard

我们所有立法机构成员中有70%是律师。很自然地，立法的律师们偏爱以律师为重要元素的法律。

——埃尔伯特·哈伯德

Nothing is more subject to change than the laws.

...Michel de Montaigne

法律是最需要变革的。

——米哈伊·德·蒙田

Debt: Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ...Herbert Hoover

债：为年轻人祈福，因为他们将继承国债。

——赫伯特·胡佛

Lawful, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction. ...Ambrose Bierce

合法的：形容词，符合行使裁判权法官意愿的。

——安布罗斯·比尔斯

That whether you're an honest man or

whether you're a thief

Depends on whose solicitor has given me

my brief.

...Sir W.S. Gilbert

你是一个诚实的人还是一个小偷，取决于辩护律师已交与我的答辩状。 ——W·S·吉尔伯特爵士

Will: A man left the bulk of his fortune to his lawyers. If every body did this, a lot of time would be saved.

...Anon

遗嘱：一个人留下大量财富给他的律师。如果每个人都这么做，将会省下大量的时间。

——佚名

Lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees.

...William Shakespeare

律师一直梦着数钱（律师费）。

——威廉·莎士比亚

A lawyer's a man well trained in memory of cases, precedent, repartee, speeches.

...Stephen Spender

律师是在案例、判例、应答、演讲方面受过良好训练的人。

——斯蒂芬·斯彭德

Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles, than out of them.

...Oliver Goldsmith

律师总是准备将当事人拖入麻烦之中，而不是将其从中救出。 ——奥利弗·戈德史密斯

Lawyers don't love beggars.

...Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) Gnomologia, 1732, no. 3151)

律师不喜欢乞丐。

——托马斯·富勒

Bigamy: Two rites making a wrong.

...Bob Hope

重婚：两次仪式导致一次错误。

——鲍勃·霍普

I cannot resist saying that I regard our profession [the law] as one of the obstacles to national reform.

...Lord Hailsham

我不禁说，我把我的专业（法律）作为国家改革的阻力之一。 ——希斯曼勋爵

The laws I love, the lawyers I suspect.

...Charles Churchill

我热爱法律，但我怀疑律师。

——查尔斯·邱吉尔

Laws for the regulation of trade should be most carefully scanned. That which hampers, limits, cripples and retards must be done away with. ...Elbert Hubbard

调节贸易的法律应该经过最仔细的检查，对于那些妨碍、限制、削弱及延迟其发展的规定必须废除。

——埃尔伯特·哈伯德

Judgement: Good judgement comes from experience; and experience - well, that comes from bad judgement.

...Anon

判决：好的判决来自于经验；而经验又来自于坏的判决。

——Anon

The most enlightened judicial policy is to let people manage their own business in their own way.

...Oliver Wendell Holmes

最开明的司法政策是让人民用自己的方法管理自己的事。

——奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯

It is when merchants dispute about their own rules that they invoke the law.

...Judge Brett

商人们为他们自订的行规争执不下时，通常他们会引用法律。

——布雷特法官

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable

fool.

...Sydney Smith

当我听人谈论不可变更的法时，唯一的印象是使我确信他是一个不折不扣的白痴。

——悉尼·史密斯

Every law has its loophole.

...Anonymous

任何法律都有漏洞。

——佚名

The language of laws should be simple; directness is always better than elaborate

wording.

...Montesquieu

法律语言应该简单；直接好过繁杂的措词。

——孟德斯鸠

We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea -- organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation.

...Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart

我们致力于一个强有力的观念——有组织的法律胜于无保护的权力。这个

观念看起来在全国普遍接受。

——最高法院波特·斯图尔特法官

The law, as manipulated by clever and highly respected rascals, still remains the best avenue for a career of honorable and leisurely plunder. ...Gabriel Chevallier

法律由一群聪明且受人尊敬的混蛋操控，仍然是他们进行荣耀且从容地抢劫的最佳途径。

——加百利·舍瓦莱

Justice, though due to the accused, is due to the accuser too. ...Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo

公平(的产生)虽然应归于被告，也应归于原告。

——本杰明·N·卡多索法官

When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers … we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

...Alexander

当我们既不惩处也不责备经常为恶者时，…… 我们将从新一代开始撕裂公正的基础。

——亚历山大

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.

...Coke

推论是法律的生命；而且，习惯法本身除了推论以外并没什么东西。 ——科克

There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

...Ambrose Bierce

杀人分为四种：罪大恶极的、情有可原的、有正当理由的和值得称颂的。 ——安布罗斯·比尔斯

Every law is an evil for every law is an infraction of liberty.

...J. Bentham

所有的法律都是邪恶的，因为它们都侵害人们的自由。

——J·本杰明

Justice is incidental to law and order.

...J. Edgar Hoover

公平是伴随着法律和法令而来的。

——J·埃德加·胡佛

The great object of the law is to encourage commerce.

...Judge Chambre

法律的主要目标是鼓励商业发展。

——Chambre法官

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

...Donald Rumsfeld

听取两方的意见并不一定能作出正确的判决。

——唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德

Lawyers cannot remain empty of head and pure of heart.... A lawyer has a duty to investigate or take some steps to inform himself in a situation where he believes that there is client perjury.

...Barry S. Alberts

律师们不能保证自己的纯洁……他有义务研究或采取步骤使自己相信客户所讲的一切甚至伪证。

——巴里·S·艾伯特斯

The law, as manipulated by clever and highly respected rascals, still remains the best avenue for a career of honorable and leisurely plunder. ...Gabriel Chevallier

法律由聪明的且受人尊敬的混蛋所控制，它仍然是取得可以从容掠夺的荣耀事业的最佳途径。

——加百列·谢瓦列

Perhaps the adage that hard cases make bad law should be revised to cover easy cases.

...Justice John Paul Stevens

也许谚语“难办的案件引出坏法律”应修改为简单案件同时适用。 ——约翰·保罗·史蒂文斯万事如意官

When there are too many policeman, there can be no liberty; when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace; when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice."

--Lin Yutang

警察过多，可能会失去自由；

战士过多，可能会失去和平；

律师过多可能会失去公正。

——林语堂

Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it.

...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

奇特几乎总能提供一种线索。一种犯罪越是普通，越是不具特点，就越难以查明。

——柯南·道尔爵士

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondly on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

...Einstein

人类一切和平合作的基础首先是相互信任，其次才是法庭和警察一类的机构。

——爱因斯坦

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of beng in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around. ...Mark Twain

如果我们国家的法律中只有某种神灵，而不是殚精竭虑将神灵揉进宪法，总体上来说，法律就会更好。

——马克·吐温

Pubic officers are the servats and agents of the people, to execute the l

aws which the people have made.

...Cleveland

政府官员是人民的公仆和代理人，应执行人民制定的法律。

——克利夫兰

I will not accept if nominated , and will serve if selected.

...William Sherman

如果被任命，我不愿接受，但是如果被选上，将效力。

——威廉·谢尔曼

Lawyers as a group are no more dedicated to justice or public service than a private public utility is dedicated to giving light.

...David Melinkoff

作为一个团体，律师无法象私营公用事业公司专门提供公共服务一样致力于司法与公共服务。

——大卫·麦林科夫

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

...Evelle J. Younger

一个不合格的律师可以把审判拖上几个月或几年；而合格的律师甚至可以拖更长。

——伊夫林·J·扬格

Really, what we want now, is not laws, against crime, but a law a -gainstinsaity.

...Mark Twain

实际上，我们想要的不是针对犯罪的法律，而是针对疯狂的法律。 ——马克·吐温

Law can nerver be enforced unless fear supports it.

...Sophocles

如果法律没有恐惧支撑，它绝不能生效。

——索福克勒斯

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them , since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

...Mark Twain

自然法即神灵法，只是用来约束每一个个体的法律，我们必须坚定地拒绝遵守。我们应该坚定地遵守忽视神灵法的规章制度，因为规章制度赋予我们和平、比较好的政府和稳定，因而对我们来说，规章制度比神灵法更好，因为如果我们采用神灵法的话，他会将我们陷入迷惑、无序和无政府状态。 ——马克·吐温

The law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law.

...Frederick Pollck

法律不能使人人平等，但是在法律面前人人是平等的。

——弗雷德里克·波洛克

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armor is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

...John Steinbeck

生物进化的规律之一就是：如果一种动物必须用厚厚的装甲来保护自己，表明它正在退化。这通常是一个物种走向消亡的标志。

——约翰·斯坦贝克

The law is a profession of words.

...D. Mellinkoff

法学其实不过是一门法律语言学。

——麦考密克

My daddy is a movie actor, and sometimes he plays the good guy, and sometimes he plays the lawyer.

...Malcolm Ford

我爸爸是个电影演员，有时他演好人，但有时他也演律师。

——马尔科姆·福特

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

...Jean Giraudoux

没有比学习法律更能锻炼人的想象力。没有一个诗人能像律师解释事实一样自由地解说阐释事实。

——让·吉兰多恩克斯

Concepts such as truth, justice, compassion are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.

...Aung San SuuKyi

诸如真理、公平及同情等观念通常是抵制暴力的唯一屏障。

——翁山苏姬

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

...Hubert H. Humphrey

如果一项法律没有人民的支持，那么即使再多的监狱，再多的警察，再多的法庭也不能去执行它。

——休伯特·霍·汉弗莱

There is no American right to loot stores, or to burn buildings, or to fire rifles from the rooftops. That is crime -- and crime must be dealt with forcefully and swiftly, and certainly -- under the law.

...Lyndon Baines Johnson

任何美国人都没有权利去犯罪，如抢掠商店或到大厦纵火或从屋顶随便开枪。犯罪必将在很短的时间内受到法律严厉的制裁。

——林登·贝恩斯·约翰逊

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

...T. S. Eliot

世界上大部分的麻烦都是要想成为伟大人物的人搞出来的。

——艾略特

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

...Clarence Darrow

反对者和反抗者以自己的声音反对自认为现实的不公平和过去的错误，通常他们都是世界发展的推动者。

——克拉伦斯·达罗

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

...Jules Renard

成功的危险在于使我们忘记世界上可怕的不公正。

——朱尔斯·勒纳尔

In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot fence rail.

...William Faulkner

在我的有生之年，我已经看见了真理，但它决非正义。我已经看见正义正在使用各种工具，我非常不愿意接触它们，即使在我们之间有一条10英尺长的防护栏存在。

——威廉·福克纳

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

...Reinhold Niebuhr

人类（维护）正义的能力使民主政治成为可能；但人类非正义倾向使民主政治成为必需。

——雷恩霍德·尼布尔

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

...Charles Dickens

在儿童生活的世界里，不管谁抚养他们，他们都不会敏锐地感觉到不公平。 ——查尔斯·迪更斯

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

...Friedrich von Schiller

世界的历史是恒定的，就如法律的本质；又是单纯的，就如人类的灵魂。相同的条件总是产生相同的结果。

——弗雷德里希·冯·席勒

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. ...William Howard Taft

我们生活在政治舞台上，在这里立法者把法律的通过看得比其实施结果重要得多。

——威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We

are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. ...William Hazlitt

在其他因素中的嫉妒包含了对正义的热爱。与理所当然的好运相比,我们更憎恨不正当的好运。

——威廉·哈兹里特

Few of us have enough wisdom for justice or enough leisure for humanity.

...Rex Stout

我们很少有人有足够的智慧思考公平或有足够的时间体验人性。 ——雷克斯·斯托特

The biggest gap in the world is the gap between the justice of a cause and the motives of the people pushing it.

...John P. Grier

世界上最悬殊的差距就是目标的正确性与推动目标实现的人的动机之间的差距。

——约翰·P·格瑞尔

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

...Joseph Conrad

所有的野心都是合法的，除非它是建立在人类的不幸或轻信基础之上。 ——约瑟夫·康拉德

It's a good thing justice is blind; she might not like some of the things done in her name if she could see them.

...Joe Moore

正义（女神）盲了是件幸运的事。因为如果她能看见的话，她可能不喜欢看见一些以她的名义所作的事情。

——乔·摩尔

Lawyers as a group are no more dedicated to justice or public service than a private public utility is dedicated to giving light.

...David Melinkoff

作为一个群体，律师并未象私营公共事业公司致力于提供光源一样致力于司法公正或公用事业。

——大卫·麦林科夫

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. ...Woodrow Wilson

美国宪法不仅仅是律师们起草的文件。它是生活的工具，通常是时代的灵魂。

——伍德罗·威尔逊

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

...Thomas Hardy

残忍是一种无所不在的规律，我们不能避开它。

——托马斯·哈代

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

...Johann Sigurjonsson

如果我们都按我们自己的想法判别问题，那么这个违法者将数不胜数。 ——Johann Sigurjonsson

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there.

...Walter Cronkite

正义诞生在遥远的国外,从来没有被国内采纳过.

——沃尔特·克朗凯特

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest. ...Norman Douglas

对一部分人而言，司法是非常公正的，而对其他的人来讲，司法的公正程度还远远不够。

——诺曼·道格拉斯

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

...Earl Warren

警察在执法时必须守法。

——厄尔·沃伦

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ...Benjamin Franklin

法律如果太温和，很少有人去遵守它；如果太严厉，很少有人去执行它。 ——本杰明·富兰克林

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

...African proverb

谷粒不可能指望从由鸡组成的法庭上得到公平。

——非洲谚语

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

...Thomas Jefferson

法律制度必须与人类智力发展同步。

——托马斯·杰斐逊

Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

...Jeremy Bentham

任何法律都有害，因为每项法律都侵犯自由。

——边沁·杰里米

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

...Albert Camus

奴隶的身份由要求公正开始，在渴望王冠时结束。他必须处于统治地位。 ——阿尔贝特·卡缪

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

...Groucho Marx

军事司法与司法的关系正如同军乐同音乐的关系。

——格罗克·马克思

Crime is contagious. If a government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds c

ontempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself. ...Justice Louis D. Brandeis

犯罪是会传染的。如果一个政府成为犯法者，那么它将会四处传播轻视法律的种子，导致每个人将自己置于法律之上。

——路易斯·德·布兰德斯法官

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.

...Spanish proverb

在猫嘴里的老鼠的境遇好过在律师手中的人。

——西班牙谚语

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is always almost to corrupt them.

...Voltaire

让所有的法律都清晰、一致和准确，解释它们通常都是破坏它们。 ——伏尔泰

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

...George Sand

只信仰坚持公正与平等的上帝。

——乔治·桑

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself. ...Jean-Jacques Rousseau

自由是遵守人们自己制定的法律。

——让-雅克·卢梭

Lawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

...Jane Bryant Quinn

律师(是)人们探求公平必经的收费桥上的操作员。

——简·布莱恩特·奎因

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ...Winston Churchill

如果你有一万条法规，那么你将毁掉所有对法律的尊敬。

——温斯顿·邱吉尔

In a democracy only those laws which have their basis in folkways or the approval of strong groups have a chance of being enforced. ...Abraham Myerson

在民主社会，法律只当它建立在公序民俗基础上或得到强力集团的首肯，才有机会付诸实施。

——亚伯拉罕·梅耶森

What do you get in place of a conscience? Don't answer. I know: a lawyer.

...Detective Story

你用什么替代良心？不用说我也知：律师。

——《侦探的故事》

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

...Bill Cosby

父母（那一辈人）并不在意公平，只对安宁感兴趣。

——比尔·考斯贝

Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer. ...Jewish parable

两个农夫分别宣布拥有某头牛，当他们一个抓着牛头另一个抓着牛尾（相持不下）时，牛奶最都会被律师挤走。

——犹太格言

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

...Edmund Burke

不是律师告诉我可以做，而是人性、理智及正义告诉我必须作。 ——埃德蒙·伯克

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. ...Robert F. Kennedy

什么样的社会就有什么样的罪犯。同理，任何社会都会坚持其固有的执法程序。

——约翰·F·肯尼迪

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.

...Michel de Montaigne

法律的道德准则，我们自称取自自然，实际上出自传统习俗。 ——米哈伊·德·蒙田

Of course, people are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers instead of their conscience be their guides.

...Will Rogers

当然，现在人们已变得越来聪明，总是以自律师而不是良心作为处理事情的向导。

——威·罗杰斯

When I hear any man talk of unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.

...Sydney Smith

当我听到别人谈论不可变更的法律时，给我的唯一的印象就是他是一个不折不扣的傻瓜。

——西德尼·史密斯

Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

...Frederick Douglass

人为的法律在人权方面没有区别，但是法律实践在人权方面有区别。 ——弗雷德里克·道格拉斯