Lysander Spooner: “It is a scandal and an outrage, that government should suffer itself to be made an instrument, in this way, for the…”

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

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

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…