Lysander Spooner: “If any one of these natural rights may be arbitrarily taken from him by other men, all of them may be taken from him on…”

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…