Lysander Spooner: “And it is the only law which any man can rightfully be compelled, by his fellow men, to obey.”

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

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…

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.