Lysander Spooner: “In no case can the people, whose rights they are continually denying and trampling upon, hold them to any accountability…”

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.

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

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