Quotation from The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

The first words of the pamphlet, announcing the charge that law has been turned to the opposite of its purpose.

Citation: "The law perverted!" — Frédéric Bastiat, The Law, Opening, trans. Anonymous (Putnam, 1874). (id bastiat-the-law-q1)

Portrait: Bastiat, Émile Desmaisons. Lithograph by Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé., Public domain.

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