Lysander Spooner: “Why is it that they have all gone on sanctioning and enforcing all the nakedly iniquitous laws, by which men's natural…”

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

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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 is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.