From The Bastiat Collection — surrounding passage

And now I would appeal with confidence to men of all schools, who prefer truth, justice, and

“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.”

9 A.M.C. Waterman, “The Oldest Extant Undergraduate Essay in Economics?” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27, no. 4 (December 2005): 359–73. 10 William Ballantyne Hodgson, “Things Seen and Things Not Seen” (London: Cassel & Company Limited, 1910), abridged from the translation by Dr. Hodgson in 1852. 11 Louisa S. McCord, Sophisms of the Protective Policy (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1848).