Lysander Spooner: “In the latter case, they are positive violations of men's rights.”

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

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

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…