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Lysander

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LYSANDER 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...
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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.
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LYSANDER SPOONER The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a gov...
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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...
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LYSANDER SPOONER Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the govern...
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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 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...
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