'It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.'
More from Frederic Bastiat
'Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone.'
Permalink to quote #5 'No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle wi…
Permalink to quote #7 'In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the fir…
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