Lysander Spooner: “Hence tyrants frequently yield to the demands of justice from those weaker than themselves, as a means of buying peace…”

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

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

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.