Lysander Spooner: “The government denies the natural right of human beings to live on this planet.”

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

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.

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.