Morton's Musings: There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.

Frederic Bastiat

2 comments:

KC said...: There is also an equally disturbing tendency in us to think that all things that are not legitimate must be unlawful.; July 13, 2010 at 11:40 PM
James C Morton said...: Good point!; July 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM

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