Back to Basics: The Conclusion to Frederic Bastiat's "The Law" (Must Read!)

The Law (via the Foundation for Economic Education) ^ | 1850 | Frederic Bastiat

[Pyro7480]

God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations!

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

[Silly]

Away!

[PGalt]

The 4 quotes above from Bastiat’s “The Law”.

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1809

Thanks to FReeper raygun for the link. Thanks very much for posting, Pyro7480.

[PGalt]

“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.”

from Bastiat’s “Economic Harmonies” Chapter 23 “Evil”

http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basHar.html

Thanks to FReeper raygun for the link. Thanks very much for posting, Pyro7480.

[kalee]

ping

[dcwusmc]

That is an excellent choice of quotes. Thanks.

[Josephat]

I wonder how many colleges include this book in their curriculum today. My guess, sadly, is very few. It should be the first reading assignment in every law school.