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  • We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Law Quotes
  • The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , School Quotes , Law Quotes
  • To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Law Quotes