Until you do that, is it not plain that the people have a right to consider you a tyrant, and the confederate and tool of tyrants, and to get rid of you as unceremoniously as they would of any other tyrant?
Spooner warns that failure to clarify one's stance on justice could lead to perceptions of tyranny.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?