On the record
How shall it be prevented from even injuring a part of its own members, for the aggrandizement of the rest?
Said by
Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “How shall it be prevented from even injuring a part of its own members, for the aggrandizement of the rest?”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner raises concerns about government harming its own citizens for the benefit of others.
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They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.