No conviction makes so lasting an impression on the mind as that which it works out for itself. - Frédéric Bastiat

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

When an abuse has once taken root everything is arranged on the assumption of its continuance.

One thing is overlooked, which is this: That the kind of dependence that results from exchange, from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent on the foreigner without the foreigner being dependent on us. Now, this is the very essence of society. To break up natural relations is not to place ourselves in a state of independence, but in a state of isolation.