Lysander Spooner: “Any law--made by lawmakers--that should give to any man more liberty than is given him by the law of justice, would be a…”

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

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…

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?