The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. Frederic Bastiat More Quotes by Frederic Bastiat More Quotes From Frederic Bastiat As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself. Frederic Bastiat government jobs order It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds. Frederic Bastiat independence law people It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less. Frederic Bastiat responsibility law people We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. Frederic Bastiat politics intellectual wisdom
