Lysander Spooner: “They mutually sustain each other; and neither can stand without the other.”

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

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