Lysander Spooner Quotes About War
-
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave.
→ -
The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.
→ -
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.
→
Related Authors
-
Josiah Warren Author -
Roger Sherman United States Representative -
Andrew Johnson 17th U.S. President -
Albert J. Nock Author -
Max Stirner Philosopher -
Robert Anton Wilson Author -
Murray Rothbard Economist -
Hans-Hermann Hoppe Economist -
-
-
Randy Barnett Lawyer -
-
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Author -
Gustave de Molinari Economist -
Ludwig von Mises Philosopher -
Frederic Bastiat Economist -
Herbert Spencer Philosopher -
Frederick Douglass Orator