Lysander Spooner: “If this principle were acknowledged, we should have no occasion, and no use, for insolvent or bankrupt laws.”

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.

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

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

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