Lysander Spooner: “Government is established for the protection of the weak against the strong.”

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

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

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.