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Frédéric Bastiat

They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (June 1850; Dean Russell, trans., 1950). 

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