Power Quotes by Lysander Spooner

8 Power quotes by Lysander Spooner

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Lysander Spooner’s eight succinct reflections on Power champion individual rights and question the legitimacy of imposed governmental control.

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

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To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is…

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All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to…

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No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

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The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can…

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Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between…

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When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as…

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If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the…

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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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