Lysander Spooner: “And it is the only law which any man can rightfully be compelled, by his fellow men, to obey.”

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

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.