Lysander Spooner: “Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or…”

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.

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.

They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.