They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
Spooner challenges the notion that government is essential for maintaining order and liberty.
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And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.