When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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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

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There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.
~ Frédéric Bastiat

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