Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy. - Frédéric Bastiat
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Legal plunder has two roots: One of them, as I have said before, is in human greed; the other is in false philanthropy.
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Frédéric Bastiat
Frédéric Bastiat (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was an early free-market economist and classical liberal French author.
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Indeed, a more astounding fact, in the heart of society, cannot be conceived than this: That law should have become an instrument of injustice.
Uma “ditadura” não precisa envolver um ditador efetivo. Tudo o que era necessário, dizia Bastiat, eram “as leis”, promulgadas por um Congresso ou um Parlamento, que produzissem o mesmo efeito: conformidade forçada.
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