——泰伦斯
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
...Publilius Syrus
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
“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.
...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
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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.
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。
...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 est priceps super leges, sed leges supra principem.]
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
...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.
——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 accusari tutius est quam absolvi.]
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。
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.
——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.
(Lat. nemo prudens punit quia peccatum est， sed ne peccetur;reuocari enim praeterita non possunt， futura prohibentur)
...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。
——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.
...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.
...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.
...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 severessumma est malitia.]
...Terence
...Juvenal
裁决认定掠夺者无罪，而给主张和平的人判刑。
——尤维纳利斯
The law often allows what honor forbids.
[Fr., La loi permet souvent ce que defend l'honneur.]
...Bernard Joseph Saurin
...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."
...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 opt bor anarchy.
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 summum saepe summa est malitia.]
...Terence
最严厉的法律有时会变成最大的不公平。