Lysander Spooner: “This is the great argument that is relied on to justify the robbery.”

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

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

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.