Quotes by Lysander Spooner

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If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were giv — Lysander Spooner
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are ta — Lysander Spooner
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire. — Lysander Spooner
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybod — Lysander Spooner
If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and a — Lysander Spooner
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, i — Lysander Spooner
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. — Lysander Spooner
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the — Lysander Spooner
Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom f — Lysander Spooner
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' ' — Lysander Spooner
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any — Lysander Spooner
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. — Lysander Spooner
A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely b — Lysander Spooner
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to — Lysander Spooner
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether co — Lysander Spooner
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judgin — Lysander Spooner
The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn b — Lysander Spooner
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such — Lysander Spooner
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only — Lysander Spooner