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)

Lysander Spooner Quotes

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...