It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly… — Frederic Bastiat Affair Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat Benefits Copy Share Image
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is… — Frederic Bastiat Agents Copy Share Image
“No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to… — Frédéric Bastiat Law and justice Copy Share Image
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but… — Frederic 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
“Is it to be supposed that Nature has not bestowed upon me sufficient imagination to invent a Utopia too? Is it for… — Frédéric Bastiat Nature 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
“The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for… — Frédéric Bastiat Justice Copy Share Image
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account. — Frederic Bastiat Accounts 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 Copy Share Image
“God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as… — Frédéric Bastiat Clean air Copy Share Image
“When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his… — Frédéric Bastiat Character Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Causes Copy Share Image
“You say: "There are persons who lack education" and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a… — Frederic Bastiat Education Copy Share Image
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in… — Frederic Bastiat Action Copy Share Image
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does… — Frederic Bastiat Doe Copy Share Image
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of… — Frederic Bastiat Law 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 Law Copy Share Image
“But yet he may live and enjoy, by seizing and appropriating the productions of the faculties of his fellow men. This is… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1)… — Frederic Bastiat Economic Copy Share Image
“Well, I ask the impartial reader, is it not childishness, and more than that, dangerous childishness? Is it not inevitable that we… — Frédéric Bastiat Books Copy Share Image
