All Lysander Spooner Quotes
- All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In… Agreed
- Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute… Absolute
- All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them. All
- If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for… All
- Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It… Any
- A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. Arbitrary
- In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency. Currency
- Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it. Instructed
- Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice. Account
- Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing. Funny
- The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror. Act
- There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice. Criminal
- A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man,… Any
- A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the… American
- Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with… Any
- To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them… All
- A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make… Acquire
- But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized… Cases
- It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what… Any
- It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the… Executed