"No legal plunder: This is the principle of……" — Frederic Bastiat
"No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate)."
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Frederic Bastiat
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86 Quotes by Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat has 86 quotes on this site.
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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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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
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