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Contracts Quotes

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

"Prince: ‘Record Contracts Are Just Like — I’m Gonna Say the Word – Slavery’" by Rachel Brodsky, www.spin.com. August 9, 2015.

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 (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, April 1807-December 1813”, Chapel Hill, N.C : University of North Carolina Press

A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.

Lysander Spooner (1886). “A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People”

In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.

Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.9, University of Chicago Press