"If the jury have no right to judge……" — 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 the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law."

— Lysander Spooner

118 Quotes by Lysander Spooner

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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply…
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that…
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the…
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not…
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we…
No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.
All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number…
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever…
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one…
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave,…
The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think…
Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as…

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