Lysander Spooner: “Did folly, falsehood, absurdity, assumption, or criminality ever reach a higher point than that?”

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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.

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

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.