Lysander Spooner: “This is the principal, if not the sole, motive for the establishment of all legitimate government.”

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

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

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