What, also, are we to think of all the judges,--forty in all,--his associates and successors, who, for eighty years, have been telling the people that the government has all power, and the people no rights?
Spooner criticizes judges for perpetuating the idea that the government holds all power and the people have no rights.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.