And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun — reject all systems, and ma… - Frédéric Bastiat

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?

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.

You must see, then, that the socialist democrats cannot in conscience allow men any liberty, because, by their own nature, they tend in every instance to all kinds of degradation and demoralization.