The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A law is a law, and it has to be respected.
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.
What is crucial is there be laws.
God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.