Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be a falsehood, or falsehood a truth.” ~ Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionistSource: Vices are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875).