Lysander Spooner: “It is by this arbitrary power over contracts, that the monopoly of money is sustained.”

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

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

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…

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?