--- title: "19 Persons Quotes By Lysander Spooner" description: "19 Persons quotes by Lysander Spooner. Plus more from Lysander Spooner and more Persons sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/lysander-spooner-3260_crime_vices-are-simply-the-errors-which-a-man_2167059.png" --- > [Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/vices-are-simply-the-errors-which-a-man-makes-in-his-search-after-his/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/lysander-spooner-3260_crime_vices-are-simply-the-errors-which-a-man_2167059.png) > [No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/no-body-of-men-can-be-said-to-authorize-a-man-to-act-as-their-agent/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/lysander-spooner-3260_agents_no-body-of-men-can-be-said-to-authorize_960922.png) > [Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/vices-are-those-acts-by-which-a-man-harms-himself-or-his-property/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67c/lysander-spooner-3260_crime_vices-are-those-acts-by-which-a-man-harm_2999588.png) > [The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/the-rescue-of-a-person-who-is-assaulted-or-restrained-of-his-liberty/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/308/lysander-spooner-3260_assassins_the-rescue-of-a-person-who-is-assaulted_916148.jpg) > [Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/now-a-slave-is-not-held-by-any-legal-contract-obligation-duty-or/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/lysander-spooner-3260_authority_now-a-slave-is-not-held-by-any-legal-con_966308.png) > [But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/but-for-their-right-to-judge-of-the-law-and-the-justice-of-the-law/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/648/lysander-spooner-3260_accused_but-for-their-right-to-judge-of-the-law_1507655.png) > [It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/it-is-with-government-paper-and-bank-paper-as-it-is-with-the-paper-of/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/508/lysander-spooner-3260_bank_it-is-with-government-paper-and-bank-pap_565773.jpg) > [No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/no-man-can-delegate-any-right-of-arbitrary-dominion-over-a-3rd-person/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/268/lysander-spooner-3260_add_no-man-can-delegate-any-right-of-arbitra_1173085.jpg) > [There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/there-is-not-in-the-constitution-a-syllable-that-implies-that-persons/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f0/lysander-spooner-3260_accounts_there-is-not-in-the-constitution-a-sylla_1909824.png) > [Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/now-it-is-clear-that-if-the-government-can-exclude-on-account-either/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca0/lysander-spooner-3260_accounts_now-it-is-clear-that-if-the-government-c_3167959.jpg) > [The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/the-constitution-has-no-inherent-authority-or-obligation-it-has-no/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/704/lysander-spooner-3260_authority_the-constitution-has-no-inherent-authori_339249.jpg) > [And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/and-yet-we-have-what-purports-or-professes-or-is-claimed-to-be-a/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/lysander-spooner-3260_constitution_and-yet-we-have-what-purports-or-profess_694927.png) > [For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/for-everybody-has-a-natural-right-to-defend-his-own-person-and/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a81/lysander-spooner-3260_aggressors_for-everybody-has-a-natural-right-to-def_657622.jpg) > [The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/the-nations-as-they-are-called-with-whom-our-pretended-ambassadors/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ab/lysander-spooner-3260_ambassadors_the-nations-as-they-are-called-with-whom_1156897.png) > [If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/if-those-persons-who-fancy-themselves-gifted-with-both-the-power-and/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/lysander-spooner-3260_correcting_if-those-persons-who-fancy-themselves-gi_1070035.png) > [There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/there-has-been-no-clearer-principle-of-english-or-american/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d92/lysander-spooner-3260_accused_there-has-been-no-clearer-principle-of-e_1876689.jpg) > [One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/one-essential-of-a-free-government-is-that-it-rest-wholly-on/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/lysander-spooner-3260_certain_one-essential-of-a-free-government-is-th_1419166.jpg) > [The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/the-mental-capacity-of-a-person-to-make-reasonable-contracts-is-the/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/161/lysander-spooner-3260_age_the-mental-capacity-of-a-person-to-make_1856481.jpg) > [All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/all-the-great-establishments-of-every-kind-now-in-the-hands-of-a-few/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/124/lysander-spooner-3260_broken_all-the-great-establishments-of-every-ki_3083370.png) ## Other authors on Persons ## More by Lysander Spooner > [Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/slavery-if-it-can-be-legalized-at-all-can-be-legalized-only-by/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/the-greatest-of-all-crimes-are-the-wars-that-are-carried-on-by/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/those-who-deny-the-right-of-a-jury-to-protect-an-individual-in/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/i-was-put-into-jail-as-i-was-going-to-the-shoemaker-s-to-get-a-shoe/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/the-single-despot-stands-out-in-the-face-of-all-men-and-says-i-am-the/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/the-rothschilds-and-that-class-of-money-lenders-of-whom-they-are-the/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/who-are-ever-taxed-individuals-only-who-have-property-that-can-be/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/there-can-be-no-criminal-intent-in-resisting-injustice/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/practically-and-commercially-speaking-a-dollar-is-not-necessarily-a/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/if-the-jury-have-no-right-to-judge-of-the-justice-of-a-law-of-the/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/if-it-be-said-that-the-consent-of-the-strongest-party-in-a-nation-is/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/in-reality-there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-inflation-of-prices/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/and-there-is-no-difference-in-principle-but-only-in-degree-between/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/the-constitution-has-no-inherent-authority-or-obligation-it-has-no/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) > [These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/these-so-called-governments-are-in-reality-only-great-bands-of/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/persons/lysander-spooner/#itemlist", "name": "19 Persons Quotes By Lysander Spooner", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. 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