Lysander Spooner: “They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.”

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

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?

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