The Law

I think that every tax paying American needs to read this book. Everything bastiat talks about in this book applies to whats happening in America today. Its almost creepy. If you love your liberty and your freedom, you MUST READ THIS BOOK. Based on his assessment of the early 1800s French government, this book describes our current governmant and all of the consequences that we the people will suffer if it continues to expand its size and capabilities while systematicly eliminating our liberty, rights and freedom. I was a little worried before I read The Law. Now im soiling my pants !

This is probably the best book out there when it come to the philosophy of individualism and individual liberty. All principles are as true today as when it was written.

One of the best essays ever on the proper role of government.

In 1850 a French guy wrote this little essay on the Law. It could have been written today in the US, in Europe, because we are certainly not progressing in terms of common-sense, politically. Here are some ideas: -Justice is the absence of injustice. Nothing more than that. -What God does is well done. Do not claim to know more than Him. The fact that this rule is almost universally broken says much about our level of hubris. For Bastiat Law is a minus, it takes away. His subject is so relevant today that we can see the results of the States false philanthropy, just as Orwell warned us in his Animal Farm. Western governments certainly know how to belittle us... we couldnt do without them. In Spain we have this government commercial encouraging drivers to drive well: We cant drive for you! They wished. The only idea that they think about it tells how far theyve got under our skin. This book is dynamite. Makes one see the world today in a clear and detached way. Who are the philanthropists that we owe so much devotion to? Take Gores greedy schemes with his mineral mines behind his climactic facade. Take another homeless, Soros, the preacher of the Left, whose God is money. To be a Pharisee is indeed to love the Law while hating man, to use the Law to make Injustice legal, to pervert Justice, to become a new god to modern State worshippers, wellfare addicts. Yes, Bastiat would sure be ashamed to see what the West has become: the legalized plunder by the State.

What a simple and poignant essay on governments and politicians. This is an absolute must-read primer on government bodies and politicos constantly overstepping their bounds. In a world chock full of superficial and vapid political arguments spewed by mainstream media and propagated by indolent social media shares owing to humans natural predilection for inflammatory headlines and negativity in general, this book offers deep and simply stated insight into a theoretical manifesto of what a fair government should subscribe to. History repeats itself. Seemingly, its all its been doing in the annals of mankind. The similarites, nay the identical political atmospheres, drawn between now and Bastiats 19th century references of American and Europe should make any thinking citizen, of any country, motivated to understand what a country is and the role of its governing body. This book is not a bible. It is just an additional thinking voice in a world which has become diluted by inane debate and issues. Read this book and think with it.

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Read this and give copies to your congressman and senators. This book was published in 1850 to describe the French socialists of Bastiats country, but those politicians arent that much different than ours today. Bastiat is one of the most quotable economists ever. The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. These are just a few of Bastiats gems. Read this short book. The prose is excellent.

This read definitely shows the pitfalls of socialism. We should be careful of things we ask for.

One of the best books Ive ever read. Bastiat highlighted in 1849 the exact plights and issues of our time in regard to the collusion of special interests and government to the detriment of us all. Bastiat also in this short work defines man in the pursuit of life, liberty and property and makes the most succinct and effective arguments against socialism then and now. A life-changing book. If every American or human being on Earth were aware of the information in this book the world would be a much different place, a much better place. I cant recommend the book too much!

This book succinctly defines what law is, and what it is not. In so doing, the reader clearly sees why our present system of “laws” is not working.