Lysander Spooner: “In this war, each faction--already steeped in crime--plunged into new, if not greater, crimes.”

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

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

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

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