Lysander Spooner: “They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or…”

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

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