All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another.
Lysander SpoonerA slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Lysander SpoonerThe desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
Lysander SpoonerThe only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.
Lysander SpoonerFor everybody has a natural right not only to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.
Lysander Spooner