Lysander Spooner: “A solvent contract to pay money is in reality--in law, and in equity--a bona fide mortgage upon the debtor's property.”

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

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