Lysander Spooner: “Consequently, the jury must find that he acted from a criminal motive, before they can declare him guilty.”

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

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.

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.

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.