If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, 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.
Tag: Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
Government limits
No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.
Vice as crime
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.