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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. -- John Marshall
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone. -- Octavia Spencer
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? -- Dag Hammarskjold
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. -- Colin Powell
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. -- Cesare Beccaria
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. -- Grover Norquist
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it. -- Lysander Spooner
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right. -- Simon Cowell
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. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people. -- John Marshall
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept. -- John Selden
With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity. -- Bryant McGill
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract. -- Chris Noth
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. -- Simon Mainwaring

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