Quote from Frederic Bastiat 

"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."

Quote by:
Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848
Date:
June 1850
Source:
"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1848) http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw
 
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