Lysander Spooner: “This value they will retain, whether they circulate as money, or not.”

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.