"If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institu… - Frédéric Bastiat

"If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institutions, it is said directly — "You are a dangerous innovator, a utopian, a theorist, a despiser of the laws; you would shake the basis upon which society rests." If"

Frédéric Bastiat

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Frédéric Bastiat (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was an early free-market economist and classical liberal French author.

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Alternative Names: Claude Frédéric Bastiat • Frederic Bastiat

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men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work.

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