Lysander Spooner: “It would hardly be extravagant to say, that, in nine cases in ten, men…”

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It would hardly be extravagant to say, that, in nine cases in ten, men learn it before they have learned the language by which we describe it.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner suggests that men often learn natural law intuitively before they learn the language to describe it.

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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

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