Lysander Spooner: “Be sides, when the suffrage is exercised, it gives no guaranty for the repeal of existing laws that are oppressive, and…”

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

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

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?