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Will Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized…
- It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the…
- 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…
- 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 single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master:…
- There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon…
- If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a…
- 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…
- The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach