If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar... →
Lysander Spooner
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had... →
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by... →
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties.... →
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because... →
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their... →
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... →
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends... →
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against... →
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his... →