Economics Quote by Frederic Bastiat

“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”

— Frederick Bastiat

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

— Frederic Bastiat

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To desire a state is to have it.

— Neville Goddard

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing…

— Joseph Sobran

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

— Antonin Scalia

The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do not have…

— Ilkin Santak

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of…

— Albert J. Nock

The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole…

— Murray Rothbard

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

— Walter E. Williams