一
那些为了短暂的安全而将自由放弃的人根本就不配拥有自由与安全。
- 本杰明·富兰克林(1706-1790)
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
二
没有威权的公正缺乏公信;没有公正的威权沦为独裁。
-布莱斯·巴斯卡尔 (1623-1662)
Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.
-Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
三
公正得以长存的原因是法律的精神而非法律的形式。
-美国最高法院首席大法官厄尔·沃伦 (1891-1974)
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
-U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974)
四
除非所有人的自由都得到保护,否则没有任何人的自由是安全的。
- 美国最高法院大法官威廉·道格拉斯 (1898-1980)
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
-U.S. Chief Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
五
阳光是最好的消毒剂;电光是最好的警察。
- 美国最高法院路易·D·布兰代斯大法官
Sunlight is the best disinfectant; electric light is the best police.
- U.S. Chief Justice Louis D. Brandeis
六
法官和其他所有人一样,可以分为四类:一是无脑无心的法官-这类法官要不惜一切避免;一是有脑无心的法官-这类法官几乎与坏蛋无异;一是有心无脑的法官-虽有风险但好过前两类;最后一类就是罕见的有脑有心的法官。
-罗伯特·特雷佛:一个凶杀案的解剖 (1958)
Judges, like most people, may be divided roughly into four classes:
judges with neither head nor heart - they are to be avoided at all
costs; judges with head but no heart - they are almost as bad; then
judges with heart but no head - risky but better than the first two, and
finally, those rare judges who possess both head and a heart.
-Robert Traver,Anatomy Of A Murder (1958)
七
我只倾家荡产过两次-一次是输了官司,另一次则是赢了官司。
-伏尔泰 (1694-1778)
I was never ruined but twice:once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one.
-Voltaire (1694-1778)