If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people,… — Frederic Bastiat Agree Copy Share Image
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a… — Frederic Bastiat Birth Copy Share Image
It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense — Frederic Bastiat Expenses Copy Share Image
“It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different… — Frédéric Bastiat Freedom Copy Share Image
“In fact, it is not justice which has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence… — Frédéric Bastiat Justice 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
Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the… — Frederic Bastiat Administrative 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
“...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.” — Frédéric Bastiat Faith Copy Share Image
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. — Frederic Bastiat Dangerous Copy Share Image
It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it. — Frederic Bastiat Accompany Copy Share Image
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus. — Frederic Bastiat Bonus 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
“The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with… — Frederic Bastiat Faith in god Copy Share Image
Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But… — Frederic Bastiat Benefits Copy Share Image
People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden… — Frederic Bastiat Burden 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 Categories Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Humans Copy Share Image
In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the… — Frederic Bastiat Arguing Copy Share Image
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 Creation Copy Share Image
“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” — Frédéric Bastiat Austrian-school-of-economics Copy Share Image
“Rousseau.—Although this politician, the paramount authority of the Democrats, makes the social edifice rest upon the general will, no one has so… — Frédéric Bastiat Democracy Copy Share Image
