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1 " This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a formal and contractual sense had ratified the conditions of their own battle service. The ancient Western world would soon come to define itself by culture rather than by race, skin color, or language. That idea alone would eventually bring enormous advantages to its armies on the battlefield. (p. 122) "
― Victor Davis Hanson , Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
2 " No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth. "
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe
3 " You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation. "
― Julia Quinn , It's in His Kiss (Bridgertons, #7)
4 " All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do. "
5 " I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. "
6 " Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic. "
7 " I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "
8 " The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future. "
