Lysander Spooner: “Peace, safety, and quiet for all, can be enjoyed only under laws that obtain the consent of all.”

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…

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

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

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