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But your reputation, your liberty, or perhaps your life, is at stake.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “But your reputation, your liberty, or perhaps your life, is at stake.”
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Spooner highlights the high stakes involved in legal battles, including reputation and liberty.
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They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.