The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality…

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level…

— Carl Bernstein

What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social…

— Mariana Mazzucato

My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire…

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select…

— John Ridley

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

— John Quincy Adams

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Sports leads the country to unity; politics leads the country to diversity.”

— Amit Kalantri

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness…

— Patrick Pearse

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

— Thomas Jefferson

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of…

— Albert Einstein

[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right,…

— James Madison

You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a…

— Noam Chomsky

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…

— Adrienne Rich

Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions.…

— Joanna Lohman