KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Lysander Spooner Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Lysander Spooner

Showing 61-70 of 90 Quotes by Lysander Spooner

The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

~Lysander Spooner

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 19th, 1808

Died: May 14th, 1887

Links

Find Lysander Spooner on Amazon

Related Authors

Norman O. Brown
Nicholas M. Butler
David Chalmers
Harry Frankfurt
Henry Hazlitt
Paul Kurtz
George Herbert Mead
Willard Van Orman Quine
Richard Rorty
William Irwin Thompson

Popular Authors

Milton Friedman Steve Irwin Colin Kaepernick Soren Kierkegaard Charles Krauthammer Freddie Mercury Donald Trump Swami Vivekananda

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1883 - Coco Chanel

1631 - John Dryden

1686 - Eustace Budgell

1689 - Samuel Richardson

1780 - Pierre Jean De Beranger

1808 - James Nasmyth

1835 - Richard Parks Bland

1856 - John Cotton Dana

1870 - Bernard Baruch

1871 - Orville Wright

Birthdays on August 19th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Business Christmas Father's Day God Mom Moving On Teacher Technology