Esta funesta inclinación nace de la constitución misma del hombre, de ese sentimiento primitivo, universal, invencible, que lo empuja hacia el bienes… - Frédéric Bastiat

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

Do not the legislators and their agents form a part of the human race? Do they consider that they are composed of different materials from the rest of mankind?

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.