No Society Can Exist If Respect For The Law Does Not To Some Extent Prevail; But The Surest Way To Have The Laws Respected Is To Make Them Respectable. When Law And Morality Are In Contradiction, The Citizen Finds Himself In The Cruel Dilemma Of Either Losing His Moral Sense Or Of Losing Respect For The Law, Two Evils Of Which One Is As Great As The Other, And Between Which It Is Difficult To Choose.

-Frederic Bastiat

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No Society Can Exist If Respect For

Frederic Bastiat

No Society Can Exist If Respect For The Law Does Not To Some Extent Prevail; But The Surest Way To Have The Laws Respected Is To Make Them Respectable. When Law And Morality Are In Contradiction, The Citizen Finds Himself In The Cruel Dilemma Of Either Losing His Moral Sense Or Of Losing Respect For The Law, Two Evils Of Which One Is As Great As The Other, And Between Which It Is Difficult To Choose.

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Law

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If Socialists Mean That Under Extraordinary Circumstances, For Urgent Cases, The State Should Set Aside Some Resources To Assist Certain Unfortunate People, To Help Them Adjust To Changing Conditions, We Will, Of Course, Agree. This Is Done Now; We Desire That It Be Done Better. There Is However, A Point On This Road That Must Not Be Passed; It Is The Point Where Governmental Foresight Would Step In To Replace Individual Foresight And Thus Destroy It.

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People

Desire