"How do millions of men, each gifted by nature with individual freedom; required by the law of nature to call no man, or body of men, his masters; authorized by that law to seek his own happiness in his own way, to do what he will with himself and his property, so long as he does not trespass upon the equal liberty of others; come to be stripped of these natural, God-given rights? How does a man become subjected to the control of a government of men who, like himself, by nature, have no authority over him; but who command him to do this, and forbid him to do that, as if they were his sovereigns, and he their subject; and as if their wills and their interests were the only standards of his duties and his rights; and who compel him to submission under peril of confiscation, imprisonment, and death? Clearly, all this is the work of force, or fraud, or both." - Lysander Spooner (1867)

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