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If you’re after a quick taste of Spooner’s take on exclusivity, this handful of lines offers a focused look. Though brief, each sentence captures his sharp, libertarian voice, giving you a clear sense of how he frames the idea of being the sole or the only.

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to…

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If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have,…

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

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

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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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