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Those who are capable of tyranny, are capable of perjury to sustain it.
Said by
Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Those who are capable of tyranny, are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that those who can commit tyranny are also willing to lie to maintain it.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.