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Choosing a new master periodically does not stop a people being slaves
Drawn from what Lysander Spooner said
What Lysander Spooner actually said
- Lysander Spooner American individualist anarchist and legal theorist (1808 to 1887)
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.
Where this was said
↗No Treason, No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority (1870)gutenberg.org
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