Lysander Spooner: “And in the forum of conscience the same rule is equally binding upon governments, for governments are mere associations…”

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

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