Lysander Spooner: “And laborers would at least have ten, twenty, or fifty times better chances for hiring capital, than they have now.”

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.