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Quote by Frederic Bastiat
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made law

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. – Frederic Bastiat

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