It has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defense into a crime, that it may punish it.
Frédéric BastiatSource: The Law (1850), The Perversion of Law
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It has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defense into a crime, that it may punish it.
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