"When law and morality contradict each other,
the citizen has the cruel alternative
of either losing his moral sense
or losing his respect for the law." | 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 |
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