Lysander Spooner: “And when a government resorts to such measures to save its life, we need no further proof that its time to die has come.”

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

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…

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.