Quotes of Lysander Spooner - somelinesforyou

“ And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- 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, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. ”

- 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, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. ”

- 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, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ 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 oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. ”

- Lysander Spooner

“ The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets… ”

- 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, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. ”

- Lysander Spooner
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