The Law, By Frederic Bastiat
The principles and regulations established in a neighborhood by some authority and applicable to its individuals, regardless of whether in the kind of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision. From these Egyptian rulers, the Greek folks had discovered bodily workout routines, foot races, and horse and chariot races…. But the very best point that the Egyptians had taught the Greeks was to become docile, and to permit themselves to be formed by the law for the public good.
This is tremendously due to a fatal desire — learned from the teachings of antiquity — that our writers on public affairs have in typical: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.
Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of these who make the law, all the plundered classes attempt somehow … Read More