Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire... →
Lysander Spooner
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute... →
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against... →
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact;... →
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or... →
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute... →
A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in... →
If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall... →
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to... →
The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass... →