“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.” WellsLooksStatesLightLawSocialViewsModernOughtEmptyCommandSovereignSovereigntySocial ChangeRapidsPrecedentLooking To The Future Author:William Ernest Hocking
“With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.” WarSometimesStatesReasonLawDesireJudgingConflictAmbitionBoundsSovereignGrievance Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
“True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.” ShouldReasonLawDutyRationalGenerositySovereignTrue Generosity Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham
“In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.” KindMayFactsLawOrderDutyDegreesElementsStandardsEternitySacredLaysDeterminedObligationSettlingFixedSovereignBeing ThereRandom Thoughts Author:Horace Bushnell