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Us Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
- The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his…
- 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…
- But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are forced upon us,…
- Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
- 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…
- They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle