"The sort of dependence that results from exchange,……" — Frederic Bastiat
"The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely."
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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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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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