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Government Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
- Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
- 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.
- What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
- Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object…
- Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
- But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives…
- I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical;…
- When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in Society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal…
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