Freedom Quotes by Lysander Spooner

9 Freedom quotes by Lysander Spooner

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Lysander Spooner’s reflections on liberty champion individual sovereignty and minimal government, delivering passionate arguments. These nine brief excerpts capture the essence of his libertarian stance.

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“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.”

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“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their…

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All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ…

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One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is…

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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

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The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than…

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The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but…

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The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can…

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“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed,…

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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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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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