mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from commintting it.
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，而是惟恐自己会成为这种行为的牺牲者。
one of the most striking and salutary thing in ameican life is the widespread study of law.
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。
law is the crystallizaton of the habit and thought of society.
法律是社会习俗和思想的结 晶。
no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
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。
in nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.
自然界中没有奖赏 和惩罚，只有因果报应。
i disapprove of what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it.
我不同意你说的话，但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。
law can nerver be enforced unless fear supports it.
如果法律没有恐惧 支撑，它绝不能生效。
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.
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。
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。
punishment is justice for the unjust.
惩罚是对正义 的伸张。
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。
