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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of…
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,…
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers…
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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does…
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to…
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What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes…
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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box…
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance;…
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Frugality includes all the other virtues.
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would…
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No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,…
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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread…
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what…
— Seneca the Younger
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Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
— Frederic Bastiat
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By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
— Agesilaus II
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