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The Law, by Bastiat
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"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

"Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher."

--- Thomas Paine


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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it!

The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!

If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

--- Frederic Bastiat

 

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