Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

  • -- Robert F. Kennedy 罗伯特·肯尼迪

若人凌驾于法律,则法将不法。若法已不法,则自由必将沦陷。

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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

我们对失去朋友的担心并不总是来自于他们的价值感,而是来自于我们自己对他们的需要,以及我们失去了一些对我们有好感的人。

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

我们所能做的就是继续对抗,只要雷还活着,因为当他死后,就不可能在法庭上证明他是无辜的。

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

就他们的事业、活动或道德而言,大多数人已不再是个人。它们不是单位,而是分数。

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

谨慎是一种经验,它与时间相等,对所有人都同样适用。

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

从现在的努力中解脱出来,仅仅意味着过去的努力已经积累起来了。

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

自由是说二加二等于四的自由。如果这是被允许的,所有其他的都随之而来。

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

一个人有道义上的责任不遵守不公正的法律。

I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

我现在只能靠自己了。我有自己的公寓。