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The Law, by Bastiat
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"The law organizes justice.  It could not organize labor, education, and religion without destroying justice."

"Law is force ... and consequently, the proper functions of the law cannot lawfully extend beyond the proper functions of force."

"Law and force .... within the bounds of justice impose nothing but a mere negation.  They oblige one only to abstain from harming others.  They are defensive; they defend equally the rights of all."

--- Frederic Bastiat


Lesson 29 - Freedom and Organization Print E-mail

This has been the constantly-repeating story of the human race. First, when conditions are primitive and survival is difficult, men and women concern themselves with organizing for survival, and are not concerned with freedom.

Then, when they have organized, conditions improve, and survival is no longer an immediate concern, men and women begin to long for the freedom they have lost under the coercive organizations they have sanctioned and built.

This repeating pattern has led to the view that individual men and women are opposed to human organizations. This in turn has led to the equating of the condition of freedom with a state of anarchy, and the equating of human organization with a state of tyranny and oppression.

This idea could be illustrated as:

[INDIVIDUAL] vs. [ORGANIZATION]

 



 
 

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