Lysander Spooner: “Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent?”

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

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

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.