Crime Quotes by Lysander Spooner

9 Crime quotes by Lysander Spooner

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Spooner’s nine concise statements challenge conventional law from a libertarian stance. They’re sharp, provocative, and perfect for a brief look at his radical legal philosophy.

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Vices are not crimes.

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Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms…

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The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice…

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What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are…

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For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify…

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

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

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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has…

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Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to…

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Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence…

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I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out…

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The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your…

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The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling…

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Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals…

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There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

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Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance.…

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If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect…

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If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of…

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In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper…

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And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the…

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The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man.…

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

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