The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support