« All Accurate Statement Quotes · Frederic Bastiat's Page

Accurate Statement Quotes by Frederic Bastiat

1 Accurate Statement quote by Frederic Bastiat

...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…

More Quotes by Frederic Bastiat

Frederic Bastiat has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of…
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,…
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers…
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does…

See all 86 quotes by Frederic Bastiat »

More Accurate Statement Quotes

Popular Accurate Statement quotes from across the collection:

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made — Robert Mapplethorpe
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to… — Frederic Bastiat
He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate… — Groucho Marx
A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into… — Timothy Zahn

See all Accurate Statement Quotes »

Browse Frederic Bastiat Quotes by Category

Liberty Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (38) Law Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (26) All Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (21) Plunder Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (18) From Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (18) Economic Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (16) Property Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (15) Only Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (13) Legal Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (12) State Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (12) States Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (12) Persons Quotes by Frederic Bastiat (11)