"Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only……" — Frederic Bastiat
"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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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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More Defenders Quotes
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
— Lord Acton
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
— Edward Abbey
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
— Theodore Bikel
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At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
— Jefferson Davis
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Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are…
— Jonathan Schell
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of…
— Nick Hornby
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance…
— John Shelby Spong
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The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the…
— Murray Rothbard
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Holy Angels, our advocates, our brothers, our counselors, our defenders, our enlighteners, our friends, our guides, our helpers, our intercessors…
— Mother Teresa
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When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going…
— Oscar Robertson
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Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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