Lysander Spooner: “This is the rule on which the trial by jury is based.”

They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.

When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.