There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in concert, and calling themselves a government, as when it is done by a single individual, acting on his own responsibility, and calling himself a highwayman.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

The 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.

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."