I am a free American citizen, ain't I?
I pay my taxes to support a good government, don't I?
It's a contract between me and the government, ain't it?
Well, then, by damn! if the authorities do not or will not afford me protection for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then my obligations are at an end; I withhold my taxes.

I do--I do--I say I do.

What ?" He glared about him, seeking opposition.
"That's nonsense," observed Heise, quietly.

"Try it once; you'll get jugged." But this observation of the harness-maker's roused Marcus to the last pitch of frenzy.
"Yes, ah, yes!" he shouted, rising to his feet, shaking his finger in the other's face.

"Yes, I'd go to jail; but because I--I am crushed by a tyranny, does that make the tyranny right?
Does might make right ?" "You must make less noise in here, Mister Schouler," said Frenna, from behind the bar.
"Well, it makes me mad," answered Marcus, subsiding into a growl and resuming his chair.