“It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the gover...” — Lysander Spooner Quote

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

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

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

We put no greater trust in our government than when we turn on our faucet expecting clean water, and I applaud the Drinking Water and Groundwater Advisory Commission for their hard work in addressing this critical priority.