The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
Lysander Spooner
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than... →
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any... →
One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it... →
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a... →
All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the... →
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in... →
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice... →
Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot... →