Lysander Spooner: “It no more recognizes his right to have anything to say in the matter, than if he were but so much weight of powder or…”

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.

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

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

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.