Nor is it sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. We must choose between them. A citizen cannot at the same time be free and not free.
Socialists look upon people as raw material to be formed into social combinations.
Since they have decided that this is the true state of affairs, they then demand the use of force in order to substitute their own inclinations for those, of the human race. It is axiomatic that a nation whose people ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. We are witnessing all of the evils Bastiat experienced in his time. We have sold our liberty for a mess of socialist pottage. And we are forever being herded into regulatory pens by countless government agencies and continuously shorn by others.