Lysander Spooner: “This was one reason, doubtless, why Magna Carta made juries, in civil suits, paramount to all instructions of the king's…”

They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.

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

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