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

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.

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.