And they deny it for their own benefit solely, and not for the benefit of their laborers.
Lysander Spooner: “And they deny it for their own benefit solely, and not for the benefit of their laborers.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner emphasizes that the denial of trade rights serves only the interests of the powerful.
Share
More from Lysander Spooner
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 do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.