Commit Quote by Frederic Bastiat

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

— 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

“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

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…

— 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…

— Frederic Bastiat

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

— Richard Ebeling

“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

“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

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

— Frederic Bastiat

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming…

— Frederic Bastiat

“When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it -- without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force…

— Frédéric 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