FastSaying

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.


Lysander Spooner

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES People in life should not judge other people whoever they are whatever they do there religion or cre...
GARY F EVANS... What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.
SHASHI Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The senator cleared his throat, uncomfortable. This was probably new to him—the sensation of being...
JENN MARIE THORNE She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ...
JOHN PIPER Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. When there ...
SHASHI We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I

More Lysander Spooner

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and...
LYSANDER SPOONER Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the l...
LYSANDER SPOONER A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equ...
LYSANDER SPOONER Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities...
LYSANDER SPOONER A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
LYSANDER SPOONER A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offe...
LYSANDER SPOONER The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a gov...
LYSANDER SPOONER Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when...
LYSANDER SPOONER But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has eit...
LYSANDER SPOONER A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was...
LYSANDER SPOONER It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to...
LYSANDER SPOONER The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very s...
LYSANDER SPOONER The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is...
LYSANDER SPOONER The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am ...
LYSANDER SPOONER The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to det...
LYSANDER SPOONER If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other ...
LYSANDER SPOONER Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the govern...
LYSANDER SPOONER Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to ...
LYSANDER SPOONER If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and res...
LYSANDER SPOONER Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individ...
LYSANDER SPOONER Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed t...
LYSANDER SPOONER Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as ...
LYSANDER SPOONER A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hir...
LYSANDER SPOONER If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called ...
LYSANDER SPOONER If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and...
LYSANDER SPOONER The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that h...
LYSANDER SPOONER The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercis...
LYSANDER SPOONER If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justi...
LYSANDER SPOONER The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and...
LYSANDER SPOONER If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rath...
LYSANDER SPOONER One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proo...
LYSANDER SPOONER It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resista...
LYSANDER SPOONER That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest p...
LYSANDER SPOONER Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms '...
LYSANDER SPOONER Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible i...
LYSANDER SPOONER To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferio...
LYSANDER SPOONER But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection t...
LYSANDER SPOONER The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter...
LYSANDER SPOONER The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must con...
LYSANDER SPOONER Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, ...
LYSANDER SPOONER A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts t...
LYSANDER SPOONER Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men h...
LYSANDER SPOONER Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
LYSANDER SPOONER The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natura...
LYSANDER SPOONER If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, ...
LYSANDER SPOONER A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically o...
LYSANDER SPOONER To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a...
LYSANDER SPOONER Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and ...
LYSANDER SPOONER A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
LYSANDER SPOONER Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the ...
LYSANDER SPOONER Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of ju...
LYSANDER SPOONER But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governme...
LYSANDER SPOONER The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he re...
LYSANDER SPOONER It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of it...
LYSANDER SPOONER If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no...
LYSANDER SPOONER All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that ...
LYSANDER SPOONER There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
LYSANDER SPOONER All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to i...
LYSANDER SPOONER And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—ma...
LYSANDER SPOONER Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'gove...
LYSANDER SPOONER All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervou...
LYSANDER SPOONER There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial...
LYSANDER SPOONER The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man ...
LYSANDER SPOONER Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law g...
LYSANDER SPOONER If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all...
LYSANDER SPOONER That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest p...
LYSANDER SPOONER It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all ti...
LYSANDER SPOONER The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the govern...
LYSANDER SPOONER The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities t...
LYSANDER SPOONER The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their...
LYSANDER SPOONER Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I ...
LYSANDER Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.
LYSANDER In contrast to all prior hypotheses of multiple origins of the cultivated potato, we have identified...
DAVID SPOONER We thought too much.
Because while hatred is a fire only man feels, he does not hate the beast ...
MEAGAN SPOONER It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic p...
CASEY SPOONER She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such storie...
MEAGAN SPOONER It is impossible not react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic prod...
CASEY SPOONER We have had extremely productive discussions over the last two days and I am hopeful that we can wra...
DAVID SPOONER We're inches apart yet worlds away.
MEAGAN SPOONER Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
MEAGAN SPOONER None of this was what held Yeva's gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river ne...
MEAGAN SPOONER Fire cannot hurt us. And yet, when we light her a lantern, there is a moment as we watch the wick fl...
MEAGAN SPOONER Her thoughts came to life in the stillness of the wood, nurtured by the air and the scent and the vi...
MEAGAN SPOONER The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer.
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SPOONER Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught figh...
REV. W. A. SPOONER