Lysander Spooner: “It considers him simply as so much senseless war material, to be consumed, expended, and destroyed for the maintenance…”

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

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

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

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