When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.Frederic Bastiat
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.
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