Lysander Spooner, A Letter to Grover Cleveland, Boston: MA, Benj. R. Tucker (1886) p. 71, originally published in installments in Liberty, June 20, 1885 to May 22, 1886
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A good government, no more than a bad one, has any right to live by robbery, murder, or any other crime.
— Lysander Spooner on Statism
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About Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner (19 January 1808 – 14 May 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century.
About Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner (19 January 1808 – 14 May 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century.
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