Lysander Spooner Quote

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.


The collected works of Lysander Spooner (ed. 1971)


It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or...

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or...

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or...

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or...