Men Quotes by Lysander Spooner

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner

A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally…

— Lysander Spooner

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes…

— Lysander Spooner

The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law…

— Lysander Spooner

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom…

— Lysander Spooner

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…

— Lysander Spooner

And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder…

— Lysander Spooner

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or…

— Lysander Spooner

Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in…

— Lysander Spooner

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender…

— Lysander Spooner

There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were…

— Lysander Spooner

For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance…

— Lysander Spooner

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political…

— Lysander Spooner

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who…

— Lysander Spooner

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other…

— Lysander Spooner

The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much…

— Lysander Spooner

If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should…

— Lysander Spooner

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some…

— Lysander Spooner

All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is…

— Lysander Spooner

A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition…

— 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…

— Lysander Spooner

If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and…

— Lysander Spooner

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two…

— Lysander Spooner

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions…

— Lysander Spooner

A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is…

— Lysander Spooner

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other…

— Lysander Spooner

No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st…

— Lysander Spooner

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

— Lysander Spooner