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Quote from Frederic Bastiat,


"It is impossible to introduce into society
a greater change and a greater evil than this:
the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder."


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

Date:

June 1850

Source:

"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1848)
<a href=http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw>http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw</a>

Keywords:

French Revolution

Categories:

Economics, Freedom, Government, Politics, Responsibility, Socialism, Taxation, Liberty, Tax

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