Lysander Spooner: “No honest government can go into business with any individuals, be they many, or few.”

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

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