Quote by Lysander Spooner

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to…

— Lysander Spooner

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

— Lysander Spooner

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence…

— Lysander Spooner

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…

— Lysander Spooner

The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your…

— Lysander Spooner

The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling…

— Lysander Spooner

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals…

— Lysander Spooner

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

— Lysander Spooner

Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance.…

— Lysander Spooner

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect…

— Lysander Spooner

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of…

— Lysander Spooner

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper…

— Lysander Spooner