They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
Spooner challenges the notion that government is essential for maintaining order and liberty.
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What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.