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Lysander Spooner

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Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property; no such things as the right of one man to the control of his own person and property, and the corresponding and co-​equal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.

Lysander Spooner, “Vices Are Not Crimes,” anonymously in Prohibition a Failure: Or, the True Solution of the Temperance Question (1875), by Dio Lewis.

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