Lysander Spooner: “And all excuses for establishing monopolies of money, by prohibiting all other money than the coins, would also have…”

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.

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.

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

They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.