There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

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.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.