Lysander Spooner: “Unconditional submission is usually the last act of one who confesses himself subdued and enslaved.”

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

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.

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.