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Plainly, unless all a man's natural rights are inviolable by lawmakers, none of them are.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Plainly, unless all a man's natural rights are inviolable by lawmakers, none of them are.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner argues that the inviolability of natural rights is essential for their existence.
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They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.