Freedom Quotes by Frederic Bastiat

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

— Frederic Bastiat

“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

— Frederic Bastiat

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

— Frederic Bastiat

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

— Frederic Bastiat

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

— Frederic Bastiat

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

— Frederic Bastiat

“...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

“according to Montesquieu, the persons, the liberties, the property, mankind itself, are nothing but materials to exercise the sagacity of lawgivers." Rousseau.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

“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

“the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For”

— Frédéric Bastiat

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create…

— Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to…

— Frederic Bastiat

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to…

— Frederic Bastiat

“I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...”

— Frédéric Bastiat

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does…

— Frederic Bastiat

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is…

— Frederic Bastiat

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the…

— Frederic Bastiat

“You must see, then, that the socialist democrats cannot in conscience allow men any liberty, because, by their own nature, they tend…

— Frédéric Bastiat

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of…

— Frederic Bastiat

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

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly…

— Frederic Bastiat

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,…

— Frederic Bastiat

Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed…

— Frederic Bastiat

If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it…

— Frederic Bastiat

Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty,…

— Frederic Bastiat

“The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with…

— Frederic Bastiat

“God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“Life Is a Gift from God. We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life -- physical,…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the…

— Frédéric Bastiat

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from…

— Frederic Bastiat

“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

Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to…

— Frederic Bastiat

“It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different…

— Frédéric Bastiat

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in…

— Frederic Bastiat

“It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty,…

— Frédéric Bastiat

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

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