From Bastiat's classic candlemakers' petition against the sun: We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skyligh

From Bastiat's classic candlemakers' petition against the sun: We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat. http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html