By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? — Frederic Bastiat Despotism Copy Share Image
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice. — Frederic Bastiat Industry Copy Share Image
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker. — Frederic Bastiat Business Copy Share Image
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus. — Frederic Bastiat 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 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
“You must see, then, that the socialist democrats cannot in conscience allow men any liberty, because, by their own nature, they tend… — Frédéric Bastiat Democrats 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
“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
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem… — Frédéric Bastiat Freedom 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 Copy Share Image
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into… — Frederic Bastiat Change Copy Share Image
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every… — Frederic Bastiat Ancient 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
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in… — Frederic Bastiat Cities Copy Share Image
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it -- without his consent and without compensation, and whether… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Yes, as long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true mission, that it may violate property… — Frédéric Bastiat Goals 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 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
“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the… — Frédéric Bastiat Character 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 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
“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
“I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes —… — Frédéric Bastiat Law Copy Share Image
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of… — Frederic Bastiat Class Copy Share Image
All you have to do, is to see whether the law takes from some what belongs to them in order to give… — Frederic Bastiat Care Copy Share Image
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