Lysander Spooner: “The rule assumes, what is true, that natural law is a thing certain in itself; also that it is capable of being learned.”

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

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

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.