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title: "55 Law Quotes By Frederic Bastiat"
description: "Frederic Bastiat’s quotes on law, justice, and the balance between liberty and authority."
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> [Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/property-does-not-exist-because-there-are-laws-but-laws-exist-because/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-safest-way-to-make-laws-respected-is-to-make-them-respectable/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-law-commit-legal-plunder-by-violating-liberty-and-property/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/no-legal-plunder-this-is-the-principle-of-justice/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/law-cannot-organize-labor-and-industry-without-organizing-injustice/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/countries-which-enjoy-the-highest-level-of-peace-happiness-and/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-law-has-been-perverted-through-the-influence-of-two-very-2/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/a-lawyer-s-primer-if-you-don-t-have-the-law-you-argue-the-facts-if/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/legal-plunder-has-two-roots-one-of-them-as-we-have-already-seen-is-in/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/either-fraternity-is-spontaneous-or-it-does-not-exist-to-decree-it-is/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/finally-is-not-liberty-the-restricting-of-the-law-only-to-its/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/i-cannot-possibly-understand-how-fraternity-can-be-legally-enforced/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/what-then-is-law-as-i-have-said-elsewhere-it-is-the-collective/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/no-society-can-exist-if-respect-for-the-law-does-not-to-some-extent/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/who-then-would-not-like-to-see-these-benefits-flow-upon-the-world/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/but-the-law-is-made-generally-by-one-man-or-by-one-class-of-men-and/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our decedents, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/one-of-the-strangest-phenomena-of-our-time-and-one-that-will-probably-2/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/it-is-not-because-men-have-made-laws-that-personality-liberty-and/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/it-is-easy-to-understand-why-the-law-is-used-by-the-legislator-to/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/but-how-is-this-legal-plunder-to-be-identified-quite-simply-see-if/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/sometimes-the-law-defends-plunder-and-participates-in-it-sometimes/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-law-perverted-the-law-and-in-its-wake-all-the-collective-forces/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes —…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/i-do-not-think-that-illegal-plunder-such-as-theft-or-swindling-which/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/men-naturally-rebel-against-the-injustice-of-which-they-are-victims/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/all-you-have-to-do-is-to-see-whether-the-law-takes-from-some-what/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/in-an-economy-an-act-a-habit-an-institution-or-a-law-gives-birth-not/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/thus-if-there-exists-a-law-which-sanctions-slavery-or-monopoly/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-mission-of-the-law-is-not-to-oppress-persons-and-plunder-them-of/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/now-since-man-is-naturally-inclined-to-avoid-pain-and-since-labor-is-2/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/which-countries-contain-the-most-peaceful-the-most-moral-and-the-2/)

[Frédéric Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/if-philanthropy-is-not-voluntary-it-destroys-liberty-and-justice-the/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/when-law-and-morality-contradict-each-other-the-citizen-has-the-cruel/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-law-has-been-perverted-through-the-influence-of-two-very/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [ What, then is law \[government\]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/what-then-is-law-government-it-is-the-collective-organization-of-the/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/it-is-impossible-to-introduce-into-society-a-greater-change-and-a/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-law-can-be-an-instrument-of-equalization-only-as-it-takes-from/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-mission-of-law-is-not-to-oppress-persons-and-plunder-them-of/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/which-countries-contain-the-most-peaceful-the-most-moral-and-the/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-law-is-the-collective-organization-of-the-individual-s-right-to/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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> [...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-statement-the-purpose-of-the-law-is-to-cause-justice-to-reign-is/)

[Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-bastiat/)

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## More by Frederic Bastiat

> [The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-politician-attempts-to-remedy-the-evil-by-increasing-the-very/)

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> [The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-law-is-the-collective-organization-of-the-individual-s-right-to/)

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> [If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/if-every-person-has-the-right-to-defend-even-by-force-his-person-his/)

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> [Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/sometimes-the-law-defends-plunder-and-participates-in-it-sometimes/)

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> [Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/slavery-protection-and-monopoly-find-defenders-not-only-in-those-who/)

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> [Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/often-the-masses-are-plundered-and-do-not-know-it/)

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> [Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/here-i-encounter-the-most-popular-fallacy-of-our-times-it-is-not/)

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> [The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-state-is-the-great-fictitious-entity-by-which-everyone-seeks-to/)

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> [There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/there-is-in-all-of-a-strong-disposition-to-believe-that-anything/)

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> [I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/i-believe-that-my-theory-is-correct-for-whatever-be-the-question-upon/)

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> [The balance of trade is an article of faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/the-balance-of-trade-is-an-article-of-faith/)

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> [There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/there-are-people-who-think-that-plunder-loses-all-its-immorality-as/)

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> [“And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun—reject all systems,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/and-now-after-having-vainly-inflicted-upon-the-social-body-so-many/)

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> [When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/when-misguided-public-opinion-honors-what-is-despicable-and-despises/)

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> [There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-bastiat/there-is-only-one-difference-between-a-bad-economist-and-a-good-one/)

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                        "text": "“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say, not only diverted from its proper direction, but made to pursue one entirely contrary! The law become the tool of every kind of avarice, instead of being its check! The law guilty of that very iniquity which it was its mission to punish! Truly, this is a serious fact, if it exists, and one to which I feel bound to call the attention of my fellow citizens.”",
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                        "text": "“I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.”",
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                        "text": "Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.",
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