Politics Quote by Bastiat, Frederick

“Our adversaries believe that an activity that is neither subsidized nor regulated is abolished. We believe the contrary. Their faith is in the legislator,…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All the same,…

— Antonin Sertillanges

“My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are…

— Jonathan Swift

“The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens.”

— Bryant McGill

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

“When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by mankind, whilst,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a…

— John Morris Roberts

“We're on the eve of destruction. Men have lost all sense of honor. Power has become their faith instead of faith being their power.”

— Atiq Rahimi

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they…

— Herbert Spencer

“We the People have the power that becomes the power but the power abuses its power becoming tyrannical to its source of power.”

— Jose R. Coronado

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…

— Frederic Bastiat