Quotes by : Lysander Spooner

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into....

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire....

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives....

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and....

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

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

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves....

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance....

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one....

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