--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 laws 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