Lysander Spooner: “A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.”

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.