Let Us Now Try Liberty

by Frédéric Bastiat

　　God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplishtheir destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a humanform. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that theywill develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty.Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings,chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Awaywith the whims of governmental administrators, their socializedprojects, their centralization, their tariffs, their governmentschools, their state religions, their free credit, their bankmonopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalizationby taxation, and their pious moralizations!

　　And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilelyinflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end wherethey should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty;for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.