Lysander Spooner: “They are therefore mere idle wind, such as would be commands to consider the day as day, and the night as night.”

They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.

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

For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.

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.