1、When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken。
当人纯洁时，法律是无用的;人一旦腐败，法律就被破坏了。
2、If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers。
如果世上没有坏人，也就不会有好的律师。
3、The good of the people is the greatest law.
人民的利益是最大的法律。
4、Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
法官应该博学多识，而不是机智伶俐;应该恭敬多言，而不是夸夸其谈;应该循规蹈矩多言，而不是自信满满。最重要的是，正直是他们的成分和适当的美德。
5、Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
法律和公正是上帝赋予的两件东西，人却把它们拆开了。
6、It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws。
用最好的法律来改善我们的物质条件是困难的，但用坏的法律来破坏它却很容易。
7、I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
我有时希望人们把重点放在遵守法律上，而不是放在执法上。
8、The law is reason, free from passion.
法律是理性，没有激情。
9、Lawyers I suppose were children once.
我想律师也曾是孩子。
10、Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
无用的法律会削弱必要的法律。
11、Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time。
法律和制度，就像时钟一样，必须偶尔清理、上紧发条，并调整到正确的时间。
12、The law helps those who watch, not those who sleep.
法律帮助那些旁观的人，而不是睡觉的人。
13、The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
好律师不是那种眼光全在各个方面、从各个角度去观察突发事件的人，也不是那种把自己的各种条件都考虑在内的人，而是那种全心全意站在你这一边，替你摆脱困境的人。
14、The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it。
法律的制定只为了一件事，为了剥削那些不理解它的人，或者被赤裸裸的痛苦所阻止而不能遵守它。
15、Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made。
法律就像香肠。最好不要看到它们被制造出来。
16、There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature and of nations.
只有一条法律适用于所有人，那就是支配一切法律的法律，我们造物主的法律，人性的法律，正义的法律，平等的法律——自然和国家的法律。
17、The law is light.
法律是道光。
18、I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
我一生只有两次被毁;一次是输了官司，一次是赢了官司。
19、In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
在一个腐败盛行的国家，法律一定非常多。
20、The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
英国法律惩罚恶行;中国的法律做的更多，他们奖励美德。
21、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.
法律也许不能让一个男人爱上我，但它可以阻止他私刑处死我，我认为这很重要。
22、It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
有太多的法律，不如没有法律。
23、Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
好的法律使人更容易做对的事，而更难做错事。
24、The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
要说明法治在日常生活中对我们的意义，最清晰的方式就是回忆没有法治时发生了什么。
25、A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
法官是法律的学生，他自己给自己的论文打分。
26、Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
法律像房子一样，是相互依存的。
27、Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
若人凌驾于法律，则法将不法。若法已不法，则自由必将沦陷。
28、The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life — to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
法律的职责是弄清我们所谓的人类生活的混乱——使之井然有序，但同时赋予它可能性、范围，甚至尊严。
29、All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
所有使存在对任何人都有价值的东西，都依赖于对他人行为的强制限制。
30、The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
适度的精神也应该是立法者的精神。
