Our role, with very little expenditure, will henceforward be limited to repressing abuses, that is to say, preventing one citizen’s freedom from being exercised at the expense of another’s.
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PETITE PAUSE / LITTLE BREAK
My daughter Amélie was born yesterday May 13th, 2021. No publication today, I should be back on Monday.
PROTECTIONISME ET COMMUNISME
…l’intervention du législateur pour niveler les fortunes en prenant aux uns de quoi gratifier les autres, c’est du communisme…
PROTECTIONISM AND COMMUNISM
They will end by learning at their own expense that it is better to be subject to competition and face rich customers than to have a monopoly and be faced with a ruined customer base.
PROTECTIONISM AND COMMUNISM
Property does not exist if I cannot trade it as well as consume it.
THE LAW
The law has become corrupt under the influence of two very different causes: unintelligent selfishness and bogus philanthropy.
58. – DEUX PERTES CONTRE UN PROFIT.
Car Monsieur, je crois avoir observé et vous aurez peut-être observé comme moi que, malgré le grand mépris que les individus et les peuplent affichent pour le gain, il y renoncent difficilement.
ECONOMIC SOPHISMS, THIRD SERIES.
At the end of the second series of Economic Sophisms, the editor mentions that, should the author have lived longer, he certainly would have published a third series incorporating articles published in Le Libre-Echange. The translation of the Complete Works published by the Online Library of Liberty directed by David Hart, choices have been made […]
SOPHISMES ÉCONOMIQUES, TROISIÈME SÉRIE.
A la fin de la deuxième série des Sophismes Economiques, l’éditeur mentionne que, s’il avait vécu, Bastiat aurait certainement publié une troisième série incorporant des articles publiés dans Le Libre-Echange. Dans la traduction des Œuvres Complètes en anglais et publiées par la Online Library of Liberty sous la direction de David Hart, un choix a […]
II. – DEUX MORALES.
“Tu mangeras ton pain à la sueur de ton front.” – Mais chacun veut le plus de pain et le moins de sueur possible.
II. – TWO MORAL PHILOSOPHIES.
“By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread.” But everyone wants as much bread and as little sweat as possible.
CONCLUSION.
Après tout, je n’aspire pas précisément à faire naître des convictions, mais des doutes.
CONCLUSION
After all, my intention is not exactly to lay the ground for deeply held convictions but to sow the seeds of doubt.