Law Quote by Frédéric Bastiat

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

— 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

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

— Frederic Bastiat

“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve……

— Frédéric 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 has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.”

— 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…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Plunder by force or subterfuge is called theft, larceny, burglary, swindling. Plunder under color of law can take the form of ‘economic regulation’, ‘too…

— Joseph Befumo

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from…

— Ambrose Bierce

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

— Frederic Bastiat

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

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs,…

— Frederic Bastiat