Lysander Spooner: “And do you think they will never get their eyes open to see what blockheads, or impostors, you and your lawmakers are?”

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

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?

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

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…