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One Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
- By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.
- 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 secure…
- It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they…
- Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
- No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is…
- Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding,…
- Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make…
- Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist…
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