"For everybody has a natural right to defend……" — Lysander Spooner
"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 everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth."
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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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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights.…
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity;…
— Thomas Aquinas
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
— Saddam Hussein
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars…
— Howard Zinn
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that,…
— Dominic Monaghan
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world.…
— Mark Twain
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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