Numbers Quotes by Lysander Spooner

8 Numbers quotes by Lysander Spooner

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Lysander Spooner’s eight concise reflections on numbers reveal his libertarian leanings. The brief format makes his points easy to digest, providing a quick glimpse into his philosophical approach.

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

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Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire…

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Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and…

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The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act…

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

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

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All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage…

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

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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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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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