Lysander Spooner: “We might nearly as well have no courts of justice, as to throw them open, as we do, for such flagitious uses.”

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.