Individual Quote by Leonard Read

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,…

— Frederic Bastiat

I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have…

— Questlove

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

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

— Frederic Bastiat

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing…

— Joseph Sobran

“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

“I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“As the result of its systems and of its efforts, it would seem that socialism, notwithstanding all its self-compaceny, can scarcely help perceiving the…

— Bastiat, Frederick

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

“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

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

“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