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
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 Anarchy 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 Common Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes… — Frederic Bastiat Crime Copy Share Image
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. — Frederic Bastiat Defenders Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every… — Frederic Bastiat Citizens Copy Share Image
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat Entity 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
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical,… — Frederic Bastiat Arguing 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 Economic 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
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
There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect;… — Frederic Bastiat Accounts 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
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
“the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For” — Frédéric Bastiat Freedom Copy Share Image
[Socialists claim] that we reject fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association; and they brand us with the name of individualists. We can assure… — Frederic Bastiat Artificial Copy Share Image
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even… — Frederic Bastiat Arise Copy Share Image
“Life Is a Gift from God. We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life -- physical,… — Frederic Bastiat First place Copy Share Image
“When it is a question of taxes, gentlemen, prove their usefulness by reasons with some foundation, but not with that lamentable assertion:… — Frédéric Bastiat Working class Copy Share Image
Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion. — Frederic Bastiat Barriers Copy Share Image
“Another effect of this deplorable perversion of the law is, that it gives to human passions and to political struggles, and, in… — Frédéric Bastiat Political struggle 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 Accomplish Copy Share Image
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