Lysander Spooner: “They will hold on to it as long as they own and control governments as they do now.”

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

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

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.