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. (Frédéric Bastiat)

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.

Frédéric Bastiat

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