Lysander Spooner: “But will the monopolists of money give up their monopoly?”

They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.

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.

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.

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