No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.
Lysander SpoonerThe constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."
Lysander SpoonerWhat is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
Lysander SpoonerA man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.
Lysander Spooner