Notable Quote; Frederic Bastiat - Perversion of The Law - Granite Grok

Notable Quote; Frederic Bastiat – Perversion of The Law

Bastiat, Frederic BastiatIt (the Law) has acted in direct opposition to its proper end; it has destroyed its own object; it has been employed in annihilating that justice which it ought to have established, in effacing amongst Rights, that limit which it was its true mission to respect; it has placed the collective force in the service of those who wish to traffic, without risk and without scruple, in the persons, the liberty, and the property of others; it has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defense into a crime, that it may punish it.

Emphasis mine.

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