The Lincoln Administration started the process of killing the republic.
This is a wonderful summation. I thank you for posting it. I wish it could be pinned somewhere for easy reference to keep this vital basic in mind.
Socialists/criminals/totalitarians have no virtue. Plunder and death. That's how they roll...over all of us. Thanks for mentioning one.
Socialism is Legal Plunder...
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights.
Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.
Quotes/excerpts...Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
Do you have linkage? I would like to see this reposted on a regular basis.
I want to read this book.