Lysander Spooner: “It takes men's property, liberty, and lives whenever it can serve its own purposes by doing so.”

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

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

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.