Lysander Spooner: “Was a more absolute, irresponsible government than that ever invented?”

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.

For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.

When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.