Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false philanthropy. Before - Frédéric Bastiat

the purpose of the socialists is to suppress liberty of association precisely in order to force people to associate together in true liberty.)

Chateaubriand said of history: There are two consequences in history: one immediate and instantaneously recognized; the other distant and unperceived at first. These consequences often contradict each other; the former come from our short-run wisdom, the latter from long-run wisdom.

It is a rather singular argument to maintain that, because an abuse which has been permitted a temporary existence, cannot be corrected without wounding the interests of those who have profited by it, it ought, therefore, to claim perpetual duration.