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This compelling parties to pay the expenses of civil suits is one of the many cases in which government is false to the fundamental principles on which free government is based.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner highlights the injustice of requiring parties to bear the costs of civil litigation.
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They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.