天听自我民听，天视自我民视。
——《尚书》
The God hears through people’s ears, and He sees through people’s eyes.
-------- The Book of History
尧曰：“咨！尔舜！天之历数在尔躬，允执其中。四海困穷，天禄永终。”
——《论语》
King Yao said, “ Shun, my son, you will bear the duty for the God, and should keep justice and fairness. You would be dismissed by the God forever if there still were sufferings and poverty in the world.”
-------- The Analects
士志于道。
——孔子
The Natural Law is the Gentlemen’sMission.
-------- Confucius
天何言哉？四时行焉，百物生焉，天何言哉！
——孔子
Does the God say? Seasons change, and plants and animals grow. The God doesn’t say!
---------Confucius
闻诛一夫纣矣，未闻弑君也。
——孟子
I just heard that there was a man punished to die, and never heard that a king was killed.
---------Mencius
没有人对于自己或者他人具有毁灭自己的生命或剥夺他人生命或财产的绝对专断的权力。
----------洛克
Nobody has an absolute arbitrary power over himself, or over any other, to destroy his own life, or take away the life or property of another.
----------Locke
一切有权力的人都容易滥用权力，这是万古不易的一条经验。有权力的人们使用权力一直到遇有界限的地方才休止。要防止滥用权力，就必须以权力约束权力。
----------孟德斯鸠
Constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is ape to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. To prevent this abuse, it is necessary, power should be a check to power.
——Montesquieu
假如人人都是天使，就不需要任何政府了。假如由天使来统治人类，就不需要对政府进行任何外在或者内在的控制了。
------------詹姆斯•麦迪逊
If men are angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
——James Madison
权力导致腐败，绝对权力导致绝对腐败。
——阿克顿勋爵
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
——Lord Acton
法治的意思就是指政府在一切行动中均受到事前规定并宣布的规则约束——这种规则使得一切个人有可能确定地预见到当局在特定情况中会如何使用其强制权力，并据此知识来规划自己的个人事务。
——哈耶克
The Rule of Law means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and announced beforehand----rules which make it possible to foresee with fair certainty how the authority will use its coercive powers in given circumstances and to plan one’s individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge.
----Hayek
