Lysander Spooner: “Is not this equivalent to saying that governments have all power, and the people no rights?”

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

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.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.