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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frédéric Bastiat

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Frédéric Bastiat

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Born: June 30, 1801
Died: December 24, 1850 (aged 49)
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