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If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his...more

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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.

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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 mone...more

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The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonel...more

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No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

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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 ...more