Lysander Spooner: “Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent?”

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

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

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