Title page from The Shorter Works and Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner, Vol. 1 (1834-1861)

Part of: The Shorter Works and Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner, 2 vols. (1834-1884) The Shorter Works and Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner, Vol. 1 (1834-1861)

This is a compilation of Spooner’s shorter works on deism, law, poverty, the post office, and money, which were published between 1834 and 1861.

Key Quotes

Economics

Each man has the natural right to acquire all he honestly can, and to enjoy and dispose of all that he honestly acquires; and the protection of these rights is all that any one has a right to ask of government in relation to them. It is all that he can have, consistently with the equal rights of…