Lysander Spooner: “Yet this is the principle, which it is claimed should govern men in all their civil relations to each other.”

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

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

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.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…