And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each… — Frederic Bastiat Class 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
A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the… — Frederic Bastiat Facts Copy Share Image
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create… — Frederic Bastiat Anarchy 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
“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
“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
“Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false… — Frédéric Bastiat Egotism Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Consequence Copy Share Image
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest… — Frederic Bastiat Arrangements 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
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are… — Frederic Bastiat 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
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 Power Copy Share Image
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“How is it that the strange idea of making the law produce what it does not contain—prosperity, in a positive sense, wealth,… — Frédéric Bastiat Prosperity Copy Share Image
“Thus men, according to Bossuet, derive nothing from themselves; patriotism, wealth, inventions, husbandry, science—all come to them by the operation of the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Economics Copy Share Image
“What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defence.” — Frédéric Bastiat Law Copy Share Image
Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom… — Frederic Bastiat 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 Copy Share Image
“And because we do not ask so much at the hands of the law, because we only ask it for justice, it… — Frédéric Bastiat Justice Copy Share Image
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.” — Frédéric Bastiat Gift 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 Capitalism Copy Share Image
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from… — Frederic Bastiat 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 Copy Share Image
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers… — Frederic Bastiat Competition Copy Share Image
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human… — Frederic Bastiat Consumer 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
“Classical conventionalism shows us everywhere, behind passive society, a hidden power, under the names of Law, or Legislator (or, by a mode… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the… — Frederic Bastiat 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
The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which… — Frederic Bastiat Access 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
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