“In all contracts, say civilians, there should be a /quid pro quo/. If civil society therefore deprives a man of his natural means of subsistence, it should find him other means; otherwise civil society is not a contract, but a self-robbery, a robbery of the basest kind: ‘It represents a madman, who tears his body with his arms, and Saturn, who cruelly devours his own children.'”
– Robert Coram, Revolutionary War soldier, Anti-Federalist, and self-taught educator