“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
Author: Lysander Spooner
Category: government
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“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
Author: Lysander Spooner
Category: government
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“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
Author: Lysander Spooner
Category: government
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“The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.”
— Lysander Spooner
Author: Lysander Spooner
Category: money
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