Lysander Spooner: “For the right to make any and all of them stands on the same grounds of natural law, natural justice, and men's natural…”

They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.

For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.

They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.