the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the per… - Frédéric Bastiat

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the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes.

Frédéric Bastiat

The Law · June 30, 2011 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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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Advise me, but do not force your opinion on me. I shall decide at my peril and risk; that is enough and for the law to interfere would be tyranny.

Todo el mundo quiere vivir a expensas del Estado, y se olvida de que el Estado vive a expensas de todo el mundo.

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.

the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. - Frédéric Bastiat

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