It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.
The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice