'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 with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).'
More from Frederic Bastiat
'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.'
Permalink to quote #6 When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
Permalink to quote #8 'Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone.'
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