Monday, January 19, 2026

Happy Birthday ...

Lysander Spooner would turn 217 years old today had he lived to ages typical of those asserted in the early Old Testament.

I quote Spooner at least once a week to the effect of:

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain -- that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

But today I'd like to offer a second quote from him that I don't share as often but that's at least as continuingly apropos of current events:

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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