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" "The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frédéric Bastiat (30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was an early free-market economist and classical liberal French author.
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There is in all of us a strong disposition to regard what is lawful as legitimate, so much so that many falsely derive all justice from law. It is sufficient, then, for the law to order and sanction plunder, that it may appear to many consciences just and sacred. Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institutions, it is said directly — “You are a dangerous experimenter, a utopian, a theorist, a despiser of the laws; you would shake the basis upon which society rests.
Está en la naturaleza de los hombres el reaccionar contra la iniquidad de la que son víctimas. De modo que 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 por vías revolucionarias, a intervenir por algún medio en la confección de las Leyes. Tales clases, según el grado de ilustración a que hayan llegado, pueden proponerse dos objetivos bien diferentes cuando persiguen así la conquista de sus derechos políticos: o quieren hacer cesar la expoliación legal, o aspiran a tomar parte en ella.