Lysander Spooner: “No one of these rights is any more sacred or inviolable in its nature, than are all the others.”

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 neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.

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

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