A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by mil…

- 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 taken with it; for with his mon…

- Lysander Spooner

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

- Lysander Spooner

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsi…

- Lysander Spooner

The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government…

- Lysander Spooner

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

- Lysander Spooner

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

- Lysander Spooner

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

- Lysander Spooner

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemptio…

- Lysander Spooner