Austrian-school-of-economics Quote by Frédéric Bastiat Download Open image ““The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.”” — Frédéric Bastiat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austrian-school-of-economics Classical liberalism Free market Freedom Law Libertarian Libertarianism Liberty Voluntaryism
“If we want people to have respect for the law, then we must first make the law respectable, son.” — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“In short, we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“laws for the sake of controlling people rather than protecting them.” — Chris Dietzel Copy Share Image
“The law is clear, but the situation has to do with the enforcement. Laws are used when the good people want something done for… — David J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order.” — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“Laws of good intention are really of no use unless there are good people to enforce them.” — J. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
“If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.” — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?” — Victoria Stoklasa Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
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… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and economic reality.… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people. They used to be priests, and now… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism,… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
