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

Vices are not crimes.

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.

No State shall pass any law impairing the [natural] obligation of contracts.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.