“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…It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder…When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law” — French economist and statesman Frederic Bastiat in his classic, must-read book, “The Law,” available at FEE.org.
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