On the record
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
Said by
Lysander Spooner
Source
gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner criticizes the presumption that authorities need to teach justice, asserting its universal accessibility.
Share
More from Lysander Spooner
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
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.
When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.