Lysander Spooner: “It is by this arbitrary power over contracts, that the monopoly of money is sustained.”

They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.

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.

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.