Change Quote by Frederic Bastiat

“It would be impossible, therefore, to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this—the conversion of the law into an…

— Frédéric Bastiat

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

— Frederic Bastiat

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and…

— Frederick Bastiat

“The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can…

— Samuel Bolton

The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does…

— Frederic Bastiat

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves…

— Frederic Bastiat

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly…

— Matt Taibbi

“Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false philanthropy. Before”

— Frédéric Bastiat

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

— Barry Goldwater

“The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.”

— J.S.B. Morse

Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who…

— Frederic Bastiat

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

— Frederic Bastiat