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 SpoonerThose who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
Lysander SpoonerTags: tyranny lying media propaganda
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Lysander SpoonerAnd 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 SpoonerTags: freedom philosophy individualism anarchy government political anarchism constitution free-market libertarian social-contract anarcho-capitalism classical-liberalism
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 SpoonerIf 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 SpoonerTags: oppression anarchism lysander-spooner
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