Lysander Spooner: “He must bear the consequences of his own act, instead of throwing them upon another, however innocent he may have been…”

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

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?

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…