Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 105

In fine, have you never asked yourselves whether these heavy burdens on which you found your argument for a prohibitory régime are not caused by that very régime? If commerce were free, what use would you have for your great standing armies and powerful navies?.... But this belongs to the domain of politics.

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