These are fundamental principles of natural law, which govern most of the greatest interests of individuals and society; yet children learn them earlier than they learn that three and three are six, or five and five, ten.
Here, Spooner argues that children learn fundamental principles of natural law before basic arithmetic.
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Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
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?
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.