All Frederic Bastiat Quotes
- Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone. Economics
- Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed… Beforehand
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Communism
- The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Democracy
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. Defend
- They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be… Better
- Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. Economics
- In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other… Doe
- When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. Borders
- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of… Defense
- What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. Collective
- Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service… Apparatus
- It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of… Change
- When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the… Alternative
- No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this… Alas
- By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. All
- We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a… Adverse
- This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder… All
- The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… Commercial
- ...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that… Absent
- We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists… Accuse
- Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object… Accuse
- But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,… Artificial
- The plans differ; the planners are all alike... Alike
- It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure… Absolute
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