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This government had been imposed, by a few property holders, upon a people too poor, too scattered, and many of them too ignorant, to resist.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “This government had been imposed, by a few property holders, upon a people too poor, too scattered, and many of them too…”
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Spooner argues that the government was imposed on a vulnerable population by a small group of property holders.
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They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.