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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 (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don’t you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good? (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one’s labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one’s faculties, according to one’s own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are tendencies that lead downward to degradation... If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence? (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them (Frederic Bastiat Quotes)