The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's… — Frederic Bastiat Capitalism Copy Share Image
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.” — Frédéric Bastiat Gift Copy Share Image
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers… — Frederic Bastiat Competition Copy Share Image
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human… — Frederic Bastiat Consumer Copy Share Image
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false… — Frédéric Bastiat Egotism Copy Share Image
If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the… — Frederic Bastiat Acting Copy Share Image
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every… — Frederic Bastiat Ancient Copy Share Image
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Banking system Copy Share Image
“To presume to have recourse to power and taxation, besides being oppressive and unjust, implies further, the injurious supposition that the organized… — Frédéric Bastiat Power Copy Share Image
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain—prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth,… — Frédéric Bastiat Prosperity Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Economics Copy Share Image
Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Thus men, according to Bossuet, derive nothing from themselves; patriotism, wealth, inventions, husbandry, science—all come to them by the operation of the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to… — Frederic Bastiat Freedom Copy Share Image
A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the… — Frederic Bastiat Facts Copy Share Image
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create… — Frederic Bastiat Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Our adversaries believe that an activity that is neither subsidized nor regulated is abolished. We believe the contrary. Their faith is in… — Frédéric Bastiat Faith Copy Share Image
“But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the… — Frédéric Bastiat Law Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect;… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs. — Frederic Bastiat Affair Copy Share Image
“And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun—reject… — Frédéric Bastiat Faith in god Copy Share Image
“Do not the legislators and their agents form a part of the human race? Do they consider that they are composed of… — Frédéric Bastiat Human race Copy Share Image
[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production;… — Frederic Bastiat Education Copy Share Image
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each… — Frederic Bastiat Class Copy Share Image
“We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion.… — Frédéric Bastiat Education Copy Share Image
We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them… — Frederic Bastiat Absolutes Copy Share Image
But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it.… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a… — Frederic Bastiat Dependence Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Abuse Copy Share Image
Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
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