Citizens Quote by Richard Ebeling

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

— 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

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

— Frederic Bastiat

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

— G. Edward Griffin

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill…

— William O. Douglas

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

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

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

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

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

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

— Douglas MacArthur