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“Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.”

Quote by Lysander Spooner

Book:A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District

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A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District

A comprehensive examination of the financial strategies and banking systems essential for rebuilding a community affected by a fire. The book discusses the challenges and opportunities in securing the necessary capital for reconstruction, offering insights into the economic and social implications of such efforts. 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 law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.”

Men Doe Law Consequence Regard Cease Be A Man Jurors

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.”

Injustice Criminals Resisting

Book:A Defence for Fugitive Slaves

Source: A Defence for Fugitive Slaves

“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.”

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Book:No Treason: No. 1-

Source: No Treason: No. 1-

“A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.”

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Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets

Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets

“Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.”

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Book:No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

“To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.”

Done Law Natural Wealth Mankind Honest Creating Tyranny Banking Creating Wealth

Book:A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District

Source: A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District

“A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.”

Men Natural Married Property Acquire Contracts Competent Natural Rights Married Man Married Women

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.”

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Book:An Essay on the Trial by Jury

Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury

“It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'”

Men Natural Rights Surrender Contracts Inherent Impossibility Binding Inalienable Rights

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.”

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Book:An Essay on the Trial by Jury

Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury