Lysander Spooner: “And yet our government says a man must give up all his rights, in order that it may protect him.”

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.

For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.

On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.

They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.