Social Contract Quotes

"Government is a human institution, created by human beings, mainly for the purpose of instituting and maintaining certain types of order among humans" "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property" "We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities" "All men are by nature born equally free and independent" "That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity" "The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted" "All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people." "Justice is the end of government It is the end of civil society It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit" "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe they are in that condition which is called war and such a war as is of every man against every man" "The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long and no longer than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them." "By covenant only, that is to say, by mutual contract, he becomes subject to civil laws." "The principle itself of liberty and the Social Contract is a rights-logic applicable to all human beings without discrimination."