Political Quotes

Lysander Spooner: And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

On the record
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
Said by
Lysander Spooner

Editor's note · Context

Spooner argues that individuals are not obliged to recognize unjust laws, viewing them as usurpations.

Share

More from Lysander Spooner

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

gutenberg.org

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

gutenberg.org

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

gutenberg.org

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.

gutenberg.org