If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.
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About Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner was a 19th-century American abolitionist and legal theorist. Lysander Spooner was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Freedom — The value of liberty, independence, and self-determination