“Our adversaries consider, that an activity which is neither aided by supplies, nor regulated by Government, is an activity destroyed. We think just the contrary. Their faith is in the legislator, not in mankind; ours is in mankind, not in… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
“As the result of its systems and of its efforts, it would seem that socialism, notwithstanding all its self-compaceny, can scarcely help perceiving the monster of legal plunder. But what does it do? It disguises it cleverly from others, and even from itself, under the seductive names of fraternity, solidarity, organization, association. And because we do not ask so much… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share
“These classes, according to the degree of enlightenment at which they have arrived, may propose to themselves two very different ends, when they thus… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
“You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain, whence every… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
“It is so true, that the Socialists look upon mankind as a subject for social experiments, that if, by chance, they are not quite… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
“Our adversaries consider, that an activity which is neither aided by supplies, nor regulated by Government, is an activity destroyed. We think just the… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
“Truly it would be well if these visionaries, who think so much of themselves and so little of mankind, who want to renew everything,… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
