It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.
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
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
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert. - Lysander Spooner
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.
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
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…
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. - Lysander Spooner
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. - Lysander Spooner
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people. - Lysander Spooner
No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.
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 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…
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
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…
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
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…
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