{"author":"Lysander Spooner","author_id":"Lysander+Spooner","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["character","slave","criminal "],"id":24442,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"The 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.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["anarchy","brutality","coercion","force","free-society","freedom","government","libertarian","liberty","social-contract","statism","violence","voluntaryism"],"id":50136,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["lying","media","propaganda","tyranny"],"id":118038,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["positive","law","slavery "],"id":121640,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["anarchism","lysander-spooner","oppression"],"id":129871,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["age","person","years "],"id":130877,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["anarchism","anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","classical-liberalism","constitution","free-market","freedom","government","individualism","libertarian","philosophy","political","social-contract"],"id":132785,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["injustice","execution "],"id":176741,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"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.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["aggression","anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","collectivism","communism","force","free-market","freedom","gang","government","initiation-of-force","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","mafia","non-aggression-principle","socialism","statism","theft","violence","voluntaryism","welfare-state"],"id":185820,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"},{"text":"If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.","author":"Lysander Spooner","tags":["honest","single","band "],"id":187797,"author_id":"Lysander+Spooner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}