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“As long as the law may be diverted from its true purpose -- that it may violate property instead of protecting it -- then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting to gain access to the legislature as well as fighting within it.”
 By: | Frederic Bastiat (more quotes by Frederic Bastiat or books by/about 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 |
Source: | "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1850) <a href=http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw>http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw</a> |
Categories: | Corruption, Law, Plunder, Politics, Power, Prejudice, Property, Protection |
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