Heroes of Liberty

"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."

— Frederic Bastiat

 

• Wrote the Candlemakers' Petition

• Identified the Broken Window Fallacy

• Believed everyone has the right to protect "his life, liberty, and property", and that this is the one legitimate function of government.

• Described redistribution of wealth as Legal Plunder

• Forerunner of Austrian economic school

• Wrote seminal classical liberal book on political economy, The Law

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