Despotism Quote by Frederic Bastiat

“Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?”

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The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

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The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

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If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that…

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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the…

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Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

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Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the…

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

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There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons…

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I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or…

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The balance of trade is an article of faith.

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There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming…

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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But…

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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a…

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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

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There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

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Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all…

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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…

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“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to…

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“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.”

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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it…

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