Lysander Spooner: “Are not all these propositions so self-evident, or so easily demonstrated, that they cannot, with any reason, be…”

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.

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 tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.