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No government can have any right to grant them; because no government can have a right to take from one man any thing that is his, and give it to another.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “No government can have any right to grant them; because no government can have a right to take from one man any thing…”
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Spooner argues against the moral legitimacy of government taking property from one person to give to another.
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