Lysander Spooner: “Fines were received for the king's help against the adverse suitor; that is, for perversion of justice, or for delay.”

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

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?

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.