Lysander Spooner: “The only real right of property, that is known to mankind, is the natural right.”

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…