Reciprocal Obligation Quotes

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

The world does not owe any man a living, but we all owe one another a living.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.