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.
-- Frédéric Bastiat
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.
-- Frédéric Bastiat
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
-- Frédéric Bastiat
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
-- Frédéric 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.
-- Frédéric Bastiat
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).
-- Frédéric Bastiat
The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat
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