Lysander Spooner: “Neither faction cared anything for human rights then, and neither of them has shown any regard for human rights since.”

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.

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.

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…