Lysander Spooner: “Human nature has no rights, in the presence of these infernal tribunals.”

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

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…

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…

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