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The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Frederic Bastiat
Evil, Liberty, Libertarian
Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.27, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Frederic Bastiat
Law, Government, Evil
Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.

Frederic Bastiat
Eye, Evil, Firsts
Frederic Bastiat (2014). “Sophisms of the Protectionists”, p.18, The Floating Press

No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.

Frederic Bastiat
Law, Two, Evil
"Selected Essays on Political Economy". Book by Frederic Bastiat edited by George B. de Huszar (translated), 1964.

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