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- The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim…
- No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
- 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…
- And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are…
- Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this…
- Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with…
- 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…
- 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…
- The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious…
- All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to…
- Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to…
- But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even…
- Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see…
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