Frederic Bastiat Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Suffering, Slavery, Protection

  M. FREDERIC BASTIAT (1874). “ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY”, p.181

• Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Passion, Views, Law

• 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

  Law, People, Independence

  "The Law". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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