Lysander Spooner: “It is therefore capable of furnishing a hundred times as much money as we can have in coin.”

When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.

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

They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.

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