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Government Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- 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…
- The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to…
- 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…
- The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
- The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are…
- 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.
- 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…
- The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
- 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…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida