Lysander Spooner: “Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.”

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.