Lysander Spooner Quotes about Liberty

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The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

Lysander Spooner

Government, People, Liberty

Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.30

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

Lysander Spooner

Men, Political, Liberty

Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit ... Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do ... He does not keep "protecting" you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that.

Lysander Spooner

Taken, Responsibility, Liberty

"No Treason" by Lysander Spooner, No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority, 1870.

The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

Lysander Spooner

Law, Liberty, Assassins

Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.27

Lysander Spooner Quotes about Liberty

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