Frasi di Lysander Spooner

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Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

2/7

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

3/7

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

4/7

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

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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.

6/7

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

7/7

For everybody has a natural right not only to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.