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Frederic Bastiat Quotes


“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” Frederic Bastiat Anarchy 142
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. Frederic Bastiat Everyone 140
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. Frederic Bastiat Come 91
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Frederic Bastiat Entity 70
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. Frederic Bastiat Uncategorized 64
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. Frederic Bastiat Defend 58
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? Frederic Bastiat Travel 53
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat Beforehand 51
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice? Frederic Bastiat Uncategorized 42
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. Frederic Bastiat Uncategorized 41
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? Frederic Bastiat Legal 40
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Frederic Bastiat Uncategorized 38

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