Lysander Spooner: “It can do to no one any favor, nor render to any one any assistance, which it withholds from another.”

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

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…

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

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…