All Lysander Spooner Quotes
- A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are… Allowed
- It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other… Acquire
- No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only… Add
- The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody… Consent
- The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties… Always Free
- The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands,… All
- The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support,… Compelled
- No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it… All
- There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils,… America
- Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever… All
- To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and… Absurdity
- To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights,… Allow
- But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we… Authorized
- A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Allowed
- The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. Consists
- That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly… Any
- If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the… Authorize
- A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their… Accuse
- A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one… Any
- The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. Ballot