Lysander Spooner: “No such principle as justice to anybody--black or white--was the ruling motive on either side.”

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

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

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

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