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| 11 of 11 results found for - "Lysander Spooner" | [Quote No.32729] Need Area: Money > Tax
"[Contrary to some extreme opinion, Government is not a common criminal. Afterall] The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit... Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do... He does not keep 'protecting' you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that." - Lysander Spooner
(1808 – 1887), American entrepreneur and political philosopher.
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"If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized." - Lysander Spooner
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"For more than six hundred years-that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 - there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such law." - Lysander Spooner
'An Essay on Trial by Jury', 1852.
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"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we [US] should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them." - Lysander Spooner
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"All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree." - Lysander Spooner
(1808 - 1887)
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"[Here is an interesting opinion on democracy rather than a totally free market economy where there is on-going choice from competitive options, so long as the unalienable human rights of living withoud fraud, force and coercion are maintained by a single or better yet competitive forces:] A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters." - Lysander Spooner
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"No government knows any [real] limits to its power except the endurance of the people." - Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
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"Children learn the fundamental principles of natural law at a very early age. Thus they very early understand that one child must not, without just cause, strike, or otherwise hurt, another; that one child must not assume any arbitrary control or domination over another; that one child must not, either by force, deceit, or stealth, obtain possession of anything that belongs to another; that if one child commits any of these wrongs against another, it is not only the right of the injured child to resist, and, if need be, punish the wrongdoer, and compel him to make reparation, but that it is also the right, and the moral duty, of all other children, and all other persons, to assist the injured party in defending his rights, and redressing his wrongs. These are fundamental principles of natural law, which govern the most important transactions of man with man. Yet children learn them earlier than they learn that three and three are six, or five and five ten. Their childish plays, even, could not be carried on without a constant regard to them; and it is equally impossible for persons of any age to live together in peace on any other conditions." - Lysander Spooner
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"If our [U.S.A. founding] fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the [democratic] principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority [regardless of individual human rights], we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them." - Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist. Source: 'No Treason', 1867.
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"[Individual liberty and personal responsibility so long as there is no physical or financial harm to others:] Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. In vices, the very essence of crime - that is, the design to injure the person or property of another - is wanting. It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practices a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others. Unless this clear distinction between vices [which may or may not hurt the individual] and crimes [which hurt others] be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property, and the corresponding coequal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property." - Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist.
Source: Vices are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875)
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"[Morality and ethics; empathy, the ‘golden rule’ of treating others as you’d like to be treated, reciprocity; freedom from force and fraud - ‘Live and let live’ - so long as no-one is physically harmed; In a democracy...] The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters and which of them shall be slaves. [That is the reason that a social contract that uses democratic voting to decide issues, also needs protection for minorities from the majorities usually in the form of a bill of equal rights for all individuals - which is the smallest minority there is!]
" - Lysander Spooner
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