Lysander Spooner: “Why have they not told us, hundreds of years ago, what are men's natural rights of person and property?”

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.

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

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?