Lysander Spooner Quotes

"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
- Lysander Spooner
(Related: Men, Money, Liberty, Security)

"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."
- Lysander Spooner
(Related: Government, People, Jury, Justice, Law, May, Nothing, Right)

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
- Lysander Spooner
(Related: Government, Constitution)

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."
- Lysander Spooner
(Related: Man, Years)