Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat Government Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Conditions Copy Share Image
[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production;… — Frederic Bastiat Education Copy Share Image
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property. — Frederic Bastiat Doe Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Conflict Copy Share Image
“The law perverted! The law — and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation — the law, I say,… — Frédéric Bastiat Law Copy Share Image
You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you… — Frederic Bastiat Ask yourself Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. — Frederic Bastiat Causes Copy Share Image
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. — Frederic Bastiat Collectives Copy Share Image
“But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the… — Frédéric Bastiat Law Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here… — Frederic Bastiat Adverse Copy Share Image
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat Freedom Copy Share Image
If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would… — Frederic Bastiat Disposition Copy Share Image
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to… — Frederic Bastiat Benefits Copy Share Image
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I… — Frederic Bastiat Alas Copy Share Image
As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or… — Frederic Bastiat Appeals Copy Share Image
Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the… — Frederic Bastiat Acting Copy Share Image
“We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion.… — Frédéric Bastiat Education Copy Share Image
Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The… — Frederic Bastiat Evil 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… — Frédéric Bastiat Character Copy Share Image
“If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institutions, it is said directly—"You are a dangerous innovator, a utopian,… — Frédéric Bastiat Character Copy Share Image
Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to… — Frederic Bastiat Freedom Copy Share Image
“And let it not be said, as it continually is, that the law, in this sense, would be atheistic, individual, and heartless,… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. — Frederic Bastiat Beneficial Copy Share Image
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