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One Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or…
- For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of…
- I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the…
- 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…
- 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…
- But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we…
- 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…
- 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,…
- A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the…
- 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…
- A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the…
- Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute…
- One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is…
- The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts.…
- The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The…
- The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master:…
- 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…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle