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Neither the numbers engaged in the act, nor the different characters they assume as a cover for the act, alter the nature of the act itself.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Neither the numbers engaged in the act, nor the different characters they assume as a cover for the act, alter the…”
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Spooner states that the nature of an act does not change based on the number of people involved or their disguises.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
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.
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.