Lysander Spooner: “These amendments have actually forbidden any lawmaking whatever in violation of men's natural rights.”

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.

When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.

They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.