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Frédéric Bastiat
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Quote 3426
The law, then, is solely the organization of individual rights that existed before law.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 3425
It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 3424
Nothing, therefore, can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 3423
It has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defense into a crime, that it may punish it.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 3422
It has acted in direct opposition to its proper end; it has destroyed its own object.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 3421
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes - naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 3420
It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 3419
The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 3418
Law is common force organized to prevent injustice.by: Frédéric BastiatQuote 640
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.by: Frédéric BastiatMore quotes on the topics: law reality liberty property living people causes
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