Lysander Spooner: “Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?”

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

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

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…