Quotes by : Lysander Spooner

Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,'....

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their....

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will....

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine....

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his....

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what....

The secret ballot makes a secret government and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. ....

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government....

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government;....