Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 297

Spoliation by force assumes still another form. No man will engage voluntarily in the business of production in order to be robbed of what he produces. Man himself is therefore laid hold of, robbed of his freedom and personality, and forced to labour. The language held to him is not, "_If you do this for me, I will do that for you;" but this, "Yours be the fatigue, and mine the enjoyment_." This is slavery, which always implies abuse of force.

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