Saturday, July 27th, 2013
How can legal plunder be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a
Saturday, July 20th, 2013
Man can live and satisfy his wants in one of two ways: either by his own labor, or by plundering the labor of others. Labor is the creation of wealth – it creates something which was not...
Friday, July 19th, 2013
Real truth withstands the test of time. In 1850, Frederic Bastiat laid down the Law: Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,...
Saturday, July 7th, 2012
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.
