The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his <i>acquired rights</i>. He will claim that the state is obligated to prote… - Frédéric Bastiat

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The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protected and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.
Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.

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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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Hacer reinar la justicia está tan en la naturaleza de la ley, que ley y justicia, es todo uno en el espíritu de la gente. Todos tenemos una fuerte inclinación a considerar lo legal como legítimo, hasta tal punto que son muchos los que falsamente dan por sentado que toda justicia emana de la ley. Basta pues que la ley ordene y consagre la expoliación, para que ésta parezca justa y sagrada para muchas conciencias. La esclavitud, la restricción, el monopolio, encuentran defensores no solamente entre los que de ello aprovechan, sino aún entre los que por ello sufren.

Our adversaries consider that an activity which is neither aided by supplies, nor regulated by government, is an activity destroyed. We think just the contrary. Their faith is in the legislator, not in mankind; ours is in mankind, not in the legislator.

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ha procedido en forma contraria a su propia finalidad; ha destruido su propia meta; se ha aplicado a aniquilar aquella justicia que debía hacer reinar, a anular, entre los derechos, aquellos límites que era su misión hacer respetar; ha puesto la fuerza colectiva al servicio de quienes quieran explotar, sin riesgo y sin escrúpulos, la persona, la libertad o la propiedad ajenas; ha convertido la expoliación, para protegerla, en derecho y la legítima defensa en crimen, para castigarla. ¿Cómo se ha llevado a cabo semejante perversión de la ley? ¿Cuáles son sus consecuencias?

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