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Firsts Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
- 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…
- Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
- If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
- Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the…
- The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
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