Lysander Spooner: “I cannot delegate any such right to A, because I have no such right myself; and I cannot delegate to another what I do…”

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

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.

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

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