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State 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.
- The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
- We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists…
- 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…
- Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it possible?...…
- 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,…
- I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State...…
- The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from…
- The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis,…
- The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not…
- If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them…
- The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of…
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- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. — Michelle Bachelet