“It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.” MenGovernmentFormBusinessRightsDutyHarmonyInstitutionsPropertyPrivilegeLimitationCorporateCorporationsContractsTruthfulRepresentationProperty Rights Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.” IfsFeelsSeemsUniverseSpeakWhiteRightsSubjectsPossibilityRelationCleanBreathingUnconsciousContractsTidesDreadAbyssReservedInfallibleImpeccableClean Shaven Author:William James
“Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.” WellsPersonsStatesCertainForceRightsFunctionProtectionConclusionContractsFraudEnforcementJustifiedTheftUnjustified Author:Robert Nozick
“Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom - and the right of contract, which is one of the main functions of economic freedom. Therefore, even under Capitalism, so long as the old principles were remembered it was possible to recall the principles whereby Society had once been sane and well ordered.” WellsLongCertainPoliticsPrinciplesEconomyRightsEconomicCapitalismFunctionBasesPropertyRememberedLiberalismContractsSaneRecallsExaggerationMisuseEconomic Freedom Author:Hilaire Belloc
“When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.” LawRightsAbsolutesContracts Book:The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, April 1807-December 1813 Source: The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, April 1807-December 1813
“A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.” MenFactsSpeakWomenMarriageCuttingWifeRightsPropertyPossessionTitlesAcquireContractsClip Author:Honore de Balzac
“My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law and rights. Questions about what rights are "alienable" or not, loose talk about how promises should be "binding," etc., highlight the need for clarity in this area. In my view, to sort these issues out one needs a very clear and consistent understanding of the nature of property rights and ownership.” NeedsShouldHas BeensLawUnderstandingViewsIssuesClearRightsTheoryPromiseApproachAreasPropertyClarityConsistentEtcConceptionContractsMainstreamOwnershipProperty RightsBindingHighlights Author:Stephan Kinsella
“After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.” YearsRightsSeasonsLeagueContractsTexas Author:Jim Evans
“No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players' contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining.” ShouldHas BeensNextJusticeRightsPlayerShould HaveRoundsContractsProtectedExhaustingBargaining Author:Alex Rodriguez
“Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.” PeopleGivenSocialProcessAbilityRightsAgreeDemocraticEvolveAgreementContractsSocial ContractDemocratic Process Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense is not something the government bestows upon its citizens. It is an inalienable right, older than the Constitution itself. It existed prior to government and prior to the social contract of our Constitution.” FirstsHumansSelfGovernmentSocialHuman BeingsRightsCitizensConstitutionDefenseContractsMeaninglessSelf DefenseSocial Contract Author:Larry Craig
“We need to invade Michigan and rebuild the state from the ground up. We will be greeted as liberators, we have clear supply lines, and we can easily rebuild the auto industry with the kind of money we spend on other countries we invade. Hell, our new Secretary of State, Hillary of Clinton, spent the better part of the past year fighting for the rights of average folks from Michigan, so think of the good will we have with the public. This is very doable. Just tell Congress we will give KBR no-bid contracts to fix Detroit.” ThinkingNeedsGivingYearsKindCountryStatesPastFightingLinesHellClearRightsIndustryClintonCongressAverageFolksContractsOther CountriesSecretaryGood WillDetroitMichiganLiberatorsAuto Industry Author:John Cole
“My numbers and my stats were exactly the same. I was doing what the coaches wanted me to do. And what I had been doing up to that point was enough to get me a very well-paying contract with the Vikings. ... In my mind there was only one thing that had changed from the year before and the year I got cut: And that was I started speaking out in support of same-sex rights.” YearsMindWellsEnoughWantedSexNumbersSupportCuttingRightsOne ThingChangedCoachesContractsVikingsSpeaking Out Author:Chris Kluwe
“I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.” ThinkingWantUniverseForeverRightsWillingLimitsContracts Author:Isabel Allende