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"When a portion of wealth passes from the person who possesses it, without his consent and without compensation, to anyone who does not possess it, whether by force or by fraud, I say that property is violated, that plunder is committed."

— Bastiat, Frédéric

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"Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principle known as the Rule of Law."

— Hayek, Friedrich

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The Law

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Influential pamphlet arguing that law should protect individual rights rather than redistribute wealth, introducing the concept of legal plunder wh...

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