Mises Daily
Author:
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
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instead of being its check! The law guilty of that very iniquity which it was its mission to punish! Truly, this is a serious fact, if it exists, and one to which I the nation. This is the fascinating side of socialism. But, I repeat it, these two missions of the law contradict each other. We have to choose between them. A citizen to instruct others gratuitously. But, in this second case, there cannot fail to be a violation of liberty and property, — legal plunder. You say, “Here are