"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that……" — Frederic Bastiat
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
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Frederic Bastiat
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86 Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
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Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the…
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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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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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as…
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When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the…
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What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
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Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons…
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