Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 190

We, then, are the men of practice and of experience; for we oppose to the restriction which you have placed exceptionally on certain international exchanges, the practice and experience of all individuals, and of all agglomerations of individuals, whose acts are voluntary, and can consequently be adduced as evidence. But you begin by _constraining, by hindering_, and then you lay hold of acts which are _forced or prohibited_, as warranting you to exclaim, "We have practice and experience on our side!"

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