Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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[ The Bastiat Collection (2011); originally from the second series of Economic Sophisms (1848)] If anyone tells you that there are no absolute principles, no inflexible rules; that prohibition may be bad and yet that restriction may be good, reply, “Restriction prohibits all that it hinders from being imported.” If anyone says that agriculture is