Lysander Spooner: “It asserts that government owns the planet, and that men have no right to live on it, except by first getting a permit…”

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

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

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.