Quotes by : Lysander Spooner

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes....

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

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

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

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally....

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

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing....

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....

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made....