Lysander Spooner: “And from this competition of free labor with free labor, no people on earth have anything to fear, but all peoples have…”

They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.

They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.

They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.