In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. — Frederic Bastiat Business Copy Share Image
Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat Freedom Copy Share Image
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of… — Frederic Bastiat Economics Copy Share Image
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem… — Frédéric Bastiat Freedom Copy Share Image
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat First place Copy Share Image
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into… — Frederic Bastiat Change Copy Share Image
There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that… — Frederic Bastiat Belief Copy Share Image
“according to Montesquieu, the persons, the liberties, the property, mankind itself, are nothing but materials to exercise the sagacity of lawgivers." Rousseau.” — Frédéric Bastiat Freedom Copy Share Image
“You must see, then, that the socialist democrats cannot in conscience allow men any liberty, because, by their own nature, they tend… — Frédéric Bastiat Democrats Copy Share Image
“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his… — Frédéric Bastiat Character Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is… — Frederic Bastiat Absolute power Copy Share Image
There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they… — Frederic Bastiat Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful… — Frederic Bastiat Catastrophe Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly… — Frederic Bastiat Affair Copy Share Image
“For, under such an administration, every one would feel that he possessed all the fullness, as well as all the responsibility of… — Frédéric Bastiat Life Copy Share Image
“I have no doubt that she is sincerely desirous of seeing all the evils of suffering humanity remedied, and that she thinks… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights . He will claim that the state is… — Frédéric Bastiat Delusion Copy Share Image
“The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for… — Frédéric Bastiat Justice Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Conflict Copy Share Image
![“There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.” quote by Frederic Bastiat](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0da/frederic-bastiat-2151_categories_there-is-not-a-tool-an-implement-or-a-ma_1496182.png)
