Lysander Spooner: “It tramples upon any and every individual right, whenever its own will, pleasure, or discretion shall so dictate.”

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

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

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.