It is a rather singular argument to maintain that, because an abuse which has been permitted a temporary existence, cannot be corrected without wound… - Frédéric Bastiat

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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.

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About 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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Alternative Names: Claude Frédéric Bastiat Frederic Bastiat
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No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing his respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other and between which it is difficult to choose.

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Está en la naturaleza de los hombres el reaccionar contra la iniquidad de que sean víctimas. Así, pues, cuando la expoliación está organizada por la ley, en beneficio de las clases que la dictan, todas las clases expoliadas tienden por vías pacíficas o revolucionarias a tener alguna participación en la confección de las leyes. Tales clases, según sea el grado de esclarecimiento a que hayan llegado, pueden proponerse dos finalidades muy diferentes al perseguir la conquista de sus derechos políticos: o quieren hacer cesar la expoliación legal, o aspiran a participar en dicha expoliación. ¡Desgraciadas, tres veces desgraciadas las naciones en las cuales sea este último pensamiento el que predomine en las masas en el momento en que a su vez se apoderen de la facultad de legislar!

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