Lysander Spooner: “All this is necessarily implied in the natural right of men to make their own contracts, for buying and selling their…”

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.