Liberty Quotation of the Day: Bastiat on Life, Liberty, Property, and Laws

Quote Posted on May 14, 2014 Updated on May 14, 2014

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws.  On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law [1850]