Social-contract Quotes

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good...