Lysander Spooner: “Therefore the very idea of a lawmaking government necessarily implies a denial of all such things as individual liberty…”

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.

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.