gavel Legal Plunder

The use of law to take from some and give to others

format_quote Quotes

"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 event 1850

menu_book The Law

home Property report Plunder balance Justice gavel Legal Plunder

View Full Quote

"Because it's always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody else's expense. That's the real problem of our government. Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else. I'm just repeating what Bastiat said two centuries ago."

— Friedman, Milton event 1999

gavel Government Intervention emoji_events Incentives block Entitlement gavel Legal Plunder policy Public Policy

View Full Quote

"It is a sharing of plunder, not a gift, the state is not the legitimate owner of what it has taken from the taxpayer."

— Hülsmann, Jörg Guido event 2026

security State Power key Property Rights trending_up Free Market payments Taxation gavel Legal Plunder volunteer_activism Generosity

View Full Quote

auto_stories Books

The Law

person Bastiat, Frédéric event 1850

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

gavel Law balance Justice flag Liberty gavel Legal Plunder