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Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Lysander Spooner
Born: January 19, 1808
Died: May 14, 1887 (aged 79)
Bio: Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian Christian abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, legal theorist, and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century.
Known for:
- No Treason (1867)
- The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845)
- An essay on the trial by jury (1852)
- Vices Are Not Crimes
- The Lysander Spooner Reader
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