Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ~ Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) [Claude Frederic Bastiat] French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848Source: "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1848)http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw