France 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

“Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.”

— Samuel Johnson

“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it…

— William Woods Holden

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

— Frederic Bastiat

“You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction…

— Larry Brown

“To care deeply about a State that does not care about you is a tragedy. A tragedy I have come to embrace.”

— Malebo Sephodi

“A state that claims to be a savior of mankind necessarily becomes the final judge of mankind.”

— Gary North

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .”

— Howard Zinn

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“A State for one man is no State at all.”

— Sophocles

“When the state is not kind, then the people are fodder.”

— Ali Smith