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Law Quotes by Frederic 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…
- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of…
- What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
- Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service…
- 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…
- 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…
- ...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that…
- It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure…
- 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…
- Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it possible?...…
- 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…
- Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
- The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a…
- Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
- 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 is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything…
- The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from…
- Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that…
- In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of…
- The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.
- If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
- The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic…
- As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone…
- But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives…
- 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 law; if you…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson