Collectives Quote by Frederic Bastiat

“What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defence.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

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…

— Frederic Bastiat

“It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

— Chaim Weizmann

No individual, no organization, no government is above the law.

— David Lidington

The law is the foundation of our society.

— William Barr

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey,…

— Alexander Berkman

“The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

— William Blackstone