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Lysander Spooner has 118 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice…
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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…
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the…
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If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never…
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No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
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All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage…
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It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other…
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Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms…
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And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder…
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The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending…
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Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions…
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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad…
— Isaac Barrow
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All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law…
— Murray Rothbard
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
— Isabel Paterson
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History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth…
— Lysander Spooner
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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed…
— Rowan Williams
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...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform…
— Patrick O'Brian
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The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or…
— Elizabeth I
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Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give…
— Dorothy Thompson
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