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A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The Law is the Law!

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.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.