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“The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.”

Quote by Lysander Spooner

Book:An Essay on the Trial by Jury

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An Essay on the Trial by Jury

This work delves into the historical and philosophical underpinnings of the jury system, analyzing its role in ensuring justice and the rights of the accused. more

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Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner was an American philosopher, abolitionist, and legal theorist who lived from January 19, 1808, to May 14, 1887. He is recognized for his contributions to the philosophy of individual rights and his advocacy for the abolition of slavery. Spooner's work has had a profound impact on the fields of law and philosophy. more

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“The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.”

Ifs Men Trying States Faces Law Responsibility Masters Deny Conclusion Acknowledge Standing Out Despots Arbiter

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.”

Ifs Government Might Law Justice Judging Exercise Trials Jury Trial By Jury

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Anti-slavery writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Anti-slavery writings

“There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.”

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Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets

Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets

“There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils, believes that they ever have been in any other instance, either before or since.”

Men Believe May Has Beens Christian America Jesus Devil Instance Enlightened Possessed

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.”

Government Law Individual Protect Deny Oppression Unjust Defence Jury Resisting Unjust Laws

Book:An Essay on the Trial by Jury

Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury

“To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Economic writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Economic writings

“To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.”

Rights Ought Please Majority Minorities

Book:No Treason: No. 1-

Source: No Treason: No. 1-

“Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.”

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Author:John Spratt

“In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.”

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