Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal. -Frederic Bastiat

 

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Frederic Bastiat quotes in our collection. Frederic Bastiat is known for saying 'Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Frederic Bastiat

Taxes must, in the end, fall upon the consumer.

Frederic Bastiat