mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
人類對於不公正的行為加以指責，並非因為他們願意做出這種行為，而是惟恐自己會成為這種行為的犧牲者。
one of the most striking and salutary thing in ameican life is the widespread study of law.
美國人生活中最顯著而又有益的事情莫過於對法律的廣泛研究瞭。
law is the crystallizaton of the habit and thought of society.
法律是社會習俗和思想的結晶。
no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
沒有哪個社會可以制訂一部永遠適用的憲法，甚至一條永遠適用的法律。
in nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.
自然界中沒有獎賞和懲罰，隻有因果報應。
i disapprove of what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it.
我不同意你說的話，但是我願意誓死捍衛你說話的權利。
law can nerver be enforced unless fear supports it.
如果法律沒有恐懼支撐，它絕不能生效。
the law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law.
法律不能使人人平等，但是在法律面前人人是平等的。
really, what we want now, is not laws, against crime, but a law a -gainst insaity.
實際上，我們想要的不是針對犯罪的法律，而是針對瘋狂的法律。
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.
在個人自己的案件中或是他所看到的案件中不能有疏忽，因此執法從來不能疏忽。
punishment is justice for the unjust.
懲罰是對正義 的伸張。
singularity is almost invariably a clue. the more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
奇特幾乎總能提供一種線索。一種犯罪越是普通，越是不具特點，就越難以查明。