Lysander Spooner: “In whatever light, therefore, they are viewed, they are utterly destitute of everything like authority or obligation.”

When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.

They acknowledge it to be our unquestioned right and duty to kill them, if we can; that they expect nothing else, than that we will kill them, if we can; and that we are only fools and cowards, if we do not kill them, by any and every…

They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.