"Instead of a social contract, I saw a multitude of voluntary and infinitely variegated private agreements; instead of a general will, natural and Divine law; instead of alienation of individual liberty, its peaceful predervation for all to the extent possible; instead of the sovereignty and independence of the people, the sovereignty of someone who is independent by his own power and fortune [private property]; instead of delegated power, perdonal power, that is to say, power received by God, and personal right; instead of imaginary mandates and forced functions, duties of justice and charity binding on all men; instead of the government of everything, that of one's own affairs..."
—Karl Ludwig von Haller