Lysander Spooner: “But any and all such prohibitions, or qualifications, are a denial of men's natural right to make their own contracts.”

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?

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.