All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
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… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance.… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
