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Quotation from The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
“See whether the law takes from some persons that which belongs to them, to give to others what does not belong to them.”
The Law, Section on legal plunder, trans. Anonymous (Putnam, 1874)
The test by which Bastiat proposes to recognize legal plunder in any law.
Citation: "See whether the law takes from some persons that which belongs to them, to give to others what does not belong to them." — Frédéric Bastiat, The Law, Section on legal plunder, trans. Anonymous (Putnam, 1874). (id bastiat-the-law-q5)
Portrait: Bastiat, Émile Desmaisons. Lithograph by Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé., Public domain.
