Lysander Spooner: “But it is in the administration of justice, or of law, that the freedom or subjection of a people is tested.”

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

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.