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 The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property...
LYSANDER SPOONER Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, ...
LYSANDER SPOONER In contrast to all prior hypotheses of multiple origins of the cultivated potato, we have identified...
DAVID 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 We thought too much.
Because while hatred is a fire only man feels, he does not hate the beast ...
MEAGAN SPOONER Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
LYSANDER SPOONER It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic p...
CASEY 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 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 A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
LYSANDER SPOONER We're inches apart yet worlds away.
MEAGAN 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 Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
MEAGAN 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 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 Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties whe...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
ARCHIBALD WAVELL We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is onl...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations an...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is t...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in ...
ARCHIBALD COX I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain h...
ARCHIBALD COX What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortu...
ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyo...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A poem should not mean, But be
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyo...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innoce...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced with by seizing on the glimpse...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of t...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we...
ARCHIBALD HILL What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go...
ARCHIBALD HILL Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and su...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. ...
ARCHIBALD WAVELL There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from expe...
ARCHIBALD MCLEISH It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. T...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy r...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it w...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatn...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suite...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of you...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you'...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine from ...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their ...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you'...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD some people who have same-sex attraction have changed…and instead have ...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD Bhutan - having looked at its neighbor, Nepal, which is overpopulated, has ruined its environment an...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhapp...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of ...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine �...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures.
GEORGE ARCHIBALD Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes i...
ARCHIBALD COX They had kicked the door in. Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door.
JOHNNY ARCHIBALD I don't know what's going on. It's just sickness.
JOHNNY ARCHIBALD I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness.
JOHNNY ARCHIBALD Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick...
JOHNNY ARCHIBALD He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it.
DAMON ARCHIBALD I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here.
DAMON ARCHIBALD It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players in e...
DAMON ARCHIBALD You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.
DAMON ARCHIBALD We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an ass...
DAMON ARCHIBALD It was a service, and it saved us time and money. We don't gain (anything). We gained games. The red...
DAMON ARCHIBALD I would hope that most people would be aware that there is nothing protecting them from file based i...
NEIL ARCHIBALD Apple's impressive security record is likely to be tarnished if the company continues to grow its ma...
NEIL ARCHIBALD In my experience-- which is also the experience of some of my peers- Apple has been very slow to res...
NEIL ARCHIBALD The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market shar...
NEIL ARCHIBALD My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does i...
DOTTIE ARCHIBALD Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it float...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH And there, there overhead, there hung over Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes, There i...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing wha...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from exp...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see r...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A world ends when its metaphor has died
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great C...
ARCHIBALD COX Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in hum...
ARCHIBALD HILL (Lombardi) outwrestled him all over the mat.
BRIAN ARCHIBALD You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it co...
ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core o...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER Yet when a woman of Canaan came to implore his aid, he did not reject her, though she descended from...
ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER There were so many highs and lows. It was a classic Eastern/Central bout.
BRIAN ARCHIBALD I think we won more matches but they had more pins. The first night (Friday), I think they pinned vi...
BRIAN ARCHIBALD To prove to an indignant questioner on the spur of the moment that the work I do was useful seemed a...
ARCHIBALD HILL One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exerc...
ARCHIBALD HILL Tactical use of the media can be equated to power behind your skill or special ability. It is in the...
ARCHIBALD MARWIZI The key questions and challenges that we must all continue to pose and remind this key sector (the m...
ARCHIBALD MARWIZI If the African stars do not rise, are not known, remain obscure, their stories are not told – who ...
ARCHIBALD MARWIZI Work is simply, “force x distance” or the product of a force applied to an object and the displa...
ARCHIBALD MARWIZI No matter how great you are at what you do, as long as you remain known only within your own family ...
ARCHIBALD MARWIZI Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and tho...
ARCHIBALD PUTT He was a devil in sheep's clothing.
GERALD ARCHIBALD We would never have settled for that amount; $75,000 won't even cover the cost of the medication I h...
GERALD ARCHIBALD He stole money from so many people. As far as we're concerned, he never had any intention of paying ...
GERALD ARCHIBALD Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you'...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. People come from all over the world to see this mine — fr...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD some people who have same-sex attraction have changed…and instead have successfully actualized thei...
GEORGE ARCHIBALD And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the alway...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the...
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER Places are produced in that wonderful interaction of people, place, narrative, and time. When the pe...
ROBERT R. ARCHIBALD I had a picture of a seven-year-old throwing a Frisbee around on the grass but it's treated as a spi...
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a cent...
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER Time is what prevents everything from happening at once
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory unive...
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea...
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to ...
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER