Lysander Spooner: “But these robbers and tyrants quarreled--as lesser bands of robbers have done--over the division of their spoils.”

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.

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

They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.

They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.