"Law cannot defend life..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat

Bastiat asserted that the sole purpose of government is to defend and protect the right of an individual to life, liberty and property. From this definition, Bastiat concluded that the law cannot defend life, liberty and property if it promotes socialist policies, which are inherently opposed to these very things. In this way, he says, the law is perverted and turned against the only things (life, liberty, and property) it is supposed to defend.^[10]