Lysander Spooner: “Why have they not told us, hundreds of years ago, what are men's natural rights of person and property?”

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.

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

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

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.