All Lysander Spooner Quotes
- And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all… Acknowledged
- A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential… Any
- If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a… Any
- Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of… Been
- For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature… Absurd
- Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have… Been
- The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. All
- Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell… All
- Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple… Age
- Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or… Agreed
- The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even… Any
- It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a… Any
- Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving… Been
- When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he… Any
- Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only.… Consent
- The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law… Case
- If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense… Called
- No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that… Capital