Lysander Spooner: “It implies that contracts have no obligation, except the laws that are made for enforcing them.”

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

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

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

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