Frédéric Bastiat：Economic Sophisms, Excerpt 315

For there is one circumstance especially which it is very necessary to mark--it is this: Among the services which we demand from the government, the principal one is security. To ensure this there is needed a force which is capable of overcoming all other forces, individual or collective, internal or external, which can be brought against it. Combined with that unfortunate disposition, which we discover in men to live at other people's expense, there is here a danger which is self-evident.

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