Lysander Spooner: “It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their…”

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It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner criticizes the presumption that authorities need to teach justice, asserting its universal accessibility.

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All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

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