"A man is no less a slave because……" — Lysander Spooner
"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
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Lysander Spooner
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118 Quotes by Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner has 118 quotes on this site.
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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply…
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that…
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the…
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not…
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If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we…
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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…
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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…
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Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one…
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And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave,…
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The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think…
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Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as…
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