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Right Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a…
- 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 principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights,…
- 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…
- Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.
- To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is…
- Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts…
- The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their…
- 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 right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to…
- 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:…
- The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law,…
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- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour