Lysander Spooner: “If the natural obligation of contracts were known, and recognized as law, we should have no need of insolvent or…”

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

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

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…