Every law has no atom of strength， as far as no public opinion supports it.
——Wendell Phillips， American leader against slavery
若是没有公众舆论的支持，法律是丝毫没有力量的。
——美国废奴运动领袖W.菲力普斯
Good order is the foundation of all things.
——E.Burke， British statesman
良好的秩序是一切的基础。
——英国政治家E.伯克
Guilt always hurries towards its complement， punishment； only there does its satisfaction lie.
——Lawrence Durrell， British writer
犯罪总是以惩罚相补偿，只有处罚才能使犯罪得到偿还。
——英国作家 L.达雷尔
I disapprove of what you say， but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
——Voltaire， French writer
我不同意你说的话，但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。
——法国作家伏尔泰
If there were no bad people， there would be no good lawyers.
——Charles Dickens， British novelist
倘若世上没有坏人，也就不会有好的律师。
——英国小说家C.狄更斯
If we only had some God in the countryˊs laws， instead of bang in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution， it would be better all around.
——Mark Twain， American writer
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。
——美国作家马克·吐温
In nature there are no rewards or punishments； there are consequences.
——Horace Annexley Vachel， British writer
自然界中没有奖赏和惩罚，只有因果报应。
——英国作家 H. A.瓦谢尔
It is better to fight for justice than to rail at the ill.
——Alfreds Tennyson， British writer
与其责骂罪恶，不如伸张正义。
——英国作家A.丁尼生
Awes are generally found to be nets of such a texture， as the little creep through， the great break through， and the middle—sized are alone entangled in.
——William Shenstone， British poet
人们通常会发现，法律就是这样一种的网，触犯法律的人，小的可以穿网而过，大的可以破网而出，只有中等的才会坠入网中。
——英国诗人W.申斯通
Law can never be enforced unless fear supports it.
——Sophocles， Ancient Greek dramatist
如果法律没有恐惧支撑，它绝不能生效。
——古希腊剧作家索福克勒斯
Law is the crystallization of the habit and thought of society.
——Woodrow Wilson， American president
法律是社会习俗和思想的结晶。
——美国总统W.威尔逊
Law is order， and good law is good order.
——Aristotle， Ancient Greek philosopher
法律就是秩序，有好的法律才有好的秩序。
——古希腊哲学家亚里士多德
Laws grind the poor， and rich men rule the law.
——Oliver Goldsmith， British writer
法律吸吮穷人的膏血，而富人却掌握着权柄。
——英国作家O.哥尔德斯密斯
Mankind censure injustice， fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.
——Plato， Ancient Greek philosopher
人类对于不公正的行为加以指责，并非因为他们愿意做出这种行为，而是唯恐自己会成为这
种行为的牺牲者。
——古希腊哲学家柏拉图
No society can make a perpetual constitution， or even a perpetual law.
——Thomas Jefferson， America president
没有哪个社会可以制订一部永远适用的宪法，甚至一条永远适用的法律。
——美国总统T.杰斐逊
One of the most striking and salutary things in American life is the widespread study of law.
——Alexis de Tocqueville， French judge
美国人生活中最显著而又有益的事情莫过于对法律的广泛研究了。
——法国法官A.托克维尔
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
——Augustine， British writer
惩罚是对正义的伸张。
——英国作家奥古斯丁
Really， what we want now， is not laws， against crime， but a law against insanity.
——Mark Twain， American writer
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。
——美国作家马克·吐温
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is， the more difficult is it to bring it home.
——Conan Doyle， British writer
异常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。
——英国作家柯南·道尔
The administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it
that it grows not lax in his own case， or in cases which fall under his eyes.
——Mark Twain， American writer
在个人自己的案件中或是他所看到的案件中不能有疏忽，因此执法从来不能疏忽。
——美国作家马克·吐温
The law cannot make all men equal， but they are all equal before the law.
——Frederick Pollock， British jurist
法律不能使人人平等，但是在法律面前人人是平等的。
——英国法学家F.波洛克
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， American writer
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。
——美国作家马克·吐温