Lysander Spooner: “This law is the exact measure, and the only measure, of any and every man's natural rights.”

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

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

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

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?